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Nov 14, 2026
Western nations are concerned with the influx of refugees from abroad. However, the refugees often are victims of the wars that were begun and expanded by those same western…
Nov 13, 2026
Historically, with the state came the church, and with the church came the state. This insight is key to understanding the underappreciated role of religion in the American…
Nov 13, 2026
The latest answer to the affordable housing crisis is to build more government-owned units. Far from being a solution, it will lead to even more housing shortages. Original…
Nov 12, 2026
The Trump administration insists its actions against Cuba are justified because of Cuba’s communist government. Murray Rothbard, an enemy of communism, had harsh words against…
Nov 12, 2026
John C. Calhoun often is misquoted and misinterpreted by modern historians. David Gordon and Wanjiru Njoya look to help set the record straight. Original article:…
Nov 11, 2026
Thanks to hard working American taxpayers, savers, and entrepreneurs, the experiences of American military personnel are increasingly defined by jobs like "drone pilot" that are…
Nov 11, 2026
The government’s 988 line was created as a hot line to prevent suicides. While the intentions behind it might be good, there is no evidence that it actually succeeds in reducing…
Nov 11, 2026
Even if we can agree that labor markets should be generally unregulated, there is no property-rights case for offering citizenship to illegal aliens through so-called "amnesty."…
Nov 10, 2026
As we look back on the recent riots in France, we look even further back to the wisdom of another Frenchman, J. B. Say who understood something about economics and what makes a…
Nov 10, 2026
We need more Laissez-Faire Libertarians who understand that society needs no top-down rule. No society in the world needs good government in order to be free; it needs sectors of…
Nov 6, 2026
History books often connect the Great Awakening to the American Revolution, but the connection remains vague. One overlooked link is how the revival challenged privileged…
Nov 5, 2026
A choice between the Republicans’ corporatism and the Democrats’ socialism is a sad choice. Original article:…
Nov 5, 2026
Historians increasingly demonize Jackson for enacting “ethnic cleansing,” ranking his Indian removal program as one of the era’s most momentous laws. Original article:…
Nov 4, 2026
Increasingly, Americans and people around the world see the American government as a bankrupt, despotic empire headed in the wrong direction. The recent elections will change…
Nov 4, 2026
The state and its entourage are first and foremost a self-serving gang who rarely suffer the consequences of the disastrous policies they inflict on the rest of us. Original…
Nov 4, 2026
While New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani correctly points out that people are being priced out of the essentials of daily living, he fails to identify the cause: government. Instead,…
Nov 4, 2026
Jefferson did not mean equality in the sense that everyone is more or less equal in talents and abilities. And he certainly did not mean that equality (however defined) ought to…
Nov 3, 2026
While we should not fear mass unemployment from AI, it is true that some jobs will be displaced, including many BS jobs. Original article:…
Nov 3, 2026
Nathan Cofnas exposed a major fraud in elite British academics. For that, prosecutors want to put him in prison because the academic left prefers fantasy to the truth. Original…
Nov 2, 2026
What makes a nation? Is it simply a collection of ideals or does it depend upon one’s lineage, and “blood and soil”? In reality, nations are complex creations where both ideals…
Nov 2, 2026
Although they never actually accomplished it, one of the worst things the Keynesians did was convince some people that they had refuted Say's law of markets. Original article:…
Nov 2, 2026
Many have misstated Say’s Law for years. J. M. Keynes incorrectly attributed a concept to Say that he did not hold: “supply creates its own demand.” Even the great Thomas Sowell…
Oct 30, 2026
Twenty-five years ago, in the immediate wake of 9/11, Ron Paul did not propose doing nothing. Instead, he proposed targeting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda rather than launching a…
Oct 29, 2026
The federal government has poured billions of dollars into the mental health industry, and the result seems to be even more diagnosed mental illnesses with no relief in sight.…
Oct 29, 2026
Cuba’s economy is collapsing in large part because the US government is engaged in illegal and immoral economic warfare against it. Original article:…
Oct 29, 2026
As government grows and people on most sides of the political debates demand government punish their political enemies, we are seeing an increase in political violence.…
Oct 28, 2026
From a Misesian and Rothbardian perspective, can the absence of a unified and centralized state, under certain conditions, create greater space for political pluralism,…
Oct 28, 2026
Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former…
Oct 28, 2026
The free market isn’t an entity that exists in a vacuum, but a social condition that exists under a specific cultural strand that respects individuality and proportionality in…
Oct 15, 2026
Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu writes that western colonialism of African countries has permanently fixed their institutional direction. This ignores what we know about the…
Oct 15, 2026
Keynesians claim that government debt is no problem because “we owe it to ourselves,” as though owners of US debt don’t care if they are repaid or not. Taxpayers, who actually…
Oct 15, 2026
The temptation to think of China as an economic juggernaut needs a reality check. While China’s government-dominated economy has many impressive building projects, there are…
Oct 14, 2026
Robert Hall and Michael Woodford certainly deserve the Nobel memorial prize. Their work has had a substantial impact, yet significance is not soundness. Original article:…
Oct 13, 2026
A conservatism that does not recognize the efficacy of natural law is no conservatism at all. Original article:…
Oct 12, 2026
Despite the real damage the Trump administration is doing to the economy, its cheerleaders in the Cabinet continue to insist all is well. This is beyond wishful thinking.…
Oct 9, 2026
There is a simple way for housing markets to adjust to the new realities of higher interest rates. Prices need to come down. That's how markets are supposed to work. Original…
Oct 9, 2026
Many socialists define socialism by their ideal goals rather than the process—the expansion of the taking mechanism of the coercive state. Original article:…
Oct 8, 2026
Contrary to propaganda from unions and the maritime industry, the Jones Act creates hardships and is helping to drag down the US economy. The only proper outcome is to repeal it…
Oct 8, 2026
Lew Rockwell revisits Justin Raimondo's great biography of Murray Rothbard. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/still-states-greatest-enemy
Oct 7, 2026
For more than a century, the Supreme Court has tried to interpret equality before the law in different and conflicting ways. While the law can divide people, it cannot be the…
Oct 7, 2026
“Libertarian Realism” in foreign policy is based upon the interests of those who actually make policy decisions, as opposed to discussing abstract ideals of a false “national…
Oct 6, 2026
Government agents claim they are protecting us from enemies, foreign and domestic. If that is the case, then the best thing these agents can do would be to liquidate the…
Oct 6, 2026
There is no "trust fund" or contract. Social security is nothing more than a scheme to take money from current wage earners and hand it over to others. It is functionally a…
Oct 5, 2026
Socialism's failures are well-known, but true believers abound that insist that this time we can make it work. The question is why anyone still believes in it at all. Original…
Oct 2, 2026
If we’ve been at war with Iran for 47 years, Ronald Reagan was a coward and a traitor. To be consistent, mainstream national conservatives using such language about Iran ought to…
Oct 1, 2026
Norway’s new monarch may prove to be an effective leader, but we are reminded that his hereditary privilege is being financially supported by involuntary taxes. Original article:…
Oct 1, 2026
While he was living, Murray Rothbard saw issues of war and peace as being fundamental to a free society. Nothing has changed since he made that declaration. Original article:…
Oct 1, 2026
J. D. Vance raised a few eyebrows invoking Huey Long as a populist. The problem is that the populist from people like Long and Bernie Sanders is that it is based on confiscation…
Sep 30, 2026
One of the most important and aspects of Murray Rothbard's work on the American Revolution is his framing of the Constitutional Convention as a counterrevolution against the…
Sep 29, 2026
The 1857 Dred Scott case remains one of the most controversial Supreme Court decision in US History. However, overlooked is the fact that it elevated federal sovereignty above…
Sep 25, 2026
As state control over forests and brushlands continues apace both in Spain and the US, the dangers of wildfires grow worse. Environmentalists, naturally, blame capitalism.…
Sep 25, 2026
Our economic future desperately depends upon entrepreneurs being free to act. Unfortunately, our ruling classes seem to prefer economic chaos. Original article:…
Sep 25, 2026
Mainstream economics does a disservice when students are taught that money is a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account without explaining why and how money…
Sep 24, 2026
The California Energy Commission is mandating that starting in 2029, California drivers must purchase environmentally approved tires that are less safe than current tires. The…
Sep 24, 2026
No, covid was not the exception to the rule that liberty comes first. Just because the CDC insisted we give up our freedom for what turned out to be a false security did not…
Sep 22, 2026
The drive for military conscription has always depended upon the use of propaganda, since governments cannot make an honest and genuine case for the wars they start. Original…
Sep 21, 2026
We are told that Americans live under a state that claims “consent of the governed,” but when does the government seek our consent for anything? Original article:…
Sep 18, 2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, many seek to rehabilitate the War on Terror by appealing to the horror of 9/11, the right to respond, and the ideal of fighting terrorism. Many now…
Sep 17, 2026
Both Brazil and the US had slavery in the 1800s, but the US economy flourished while Brazil’s languished. If slavery was the engine for US economic growth, as leftists claim,…
Sep 17, 2026
The latest reminder of the Federal Reserve's record of failure, which now extends longer than five years, comes with the most recent inflation measure. Original article:…
Sep 17, 2026
In the name of “saving” college sports, Congress steps well past its bounds to micromanage the NCAA. Original article:…
Sep 16, 2026
Lenin wrote that the capitalists would provide the rope by which they would hang themselves. That certainly seems to be the case with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which…
Sep 15, 2026
Get ready to hear a lot about how we need government regulation to ensure that only state-approved, expensive, crony "capitalist" firms are allowed to develop AI. Original…
Sep 15, 2026
By ignoring the entrepreneur, mainstream economists are also removing a vital part of economics theory. It is like designing a car and leaving out the engine. Original article:…
Sep 14, 2026
Ignorance is treated as a reason to trust the state rather than a reason to withhold judgment about its exercise of coercion. To assume that the state’s unknown information is…
Sep 11, 2026
What followed 9/11 was 25 years of systematic destruction of American liberties, and the final destruction of the Bill of Rights, all in the name of "safety" and "patriotism."…
Sep 10, 2026
The drama continues in college sports—not on the field, but in the courtrooms—thanks to judges applying antitrust law that does not permit the NCAA to be able to enforce its own…
Sep 8, 2026
Those who become "elites" through the initiation of violence, and through the looting of others, have always been frauds and imposters. Original article:…
Sep 4, 2026
Without established exchange-ratios between a currency and goods, a fiat-token cannot meaningfully serve as a unit of account because it has no referent. The only way a state…
Sep 3, 2026
Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers. Original article:…
Sep 2, 2026
The term that best describes the CEO of the "private" company Flock is "parasite" or "plutocrat" or "welfare queen" because his "business model" is simply finding ways to exploit…
Sep 2, 2026
Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers. Original article:…
Sep 1, 2026
Federal Reserve policy has been to expand credit out of nothing without regard for the real damage it does to the economy. Original article:…
Sep 1, 2026
The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in…
Aug 31, 2026
The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the…
Aug 31, 2026
The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices
Aug 31, 2026
The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers.…
Aug 31, 2026
Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board. Original article:…
Aug 28, 2026
There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state.…
Aug 27, 2026
In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in…
Aug 26, 2026
California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely…
Aug 25, 2026
The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the…
Aug 25, 2026
As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from…
Aug 25, 2026
Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the…
Aug 21, 2026
A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution. Original article:…
Aug 20, 2026
After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change. Original article:…
Aug 18, 2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have…
Aug 18, 2026
There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question. Original article:…
Aug 17, 2026
The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong. Original article:…
Aug 14, 2026
Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same…
Aug 7, 2026
Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of…
Aug 6, 2026
Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way. Original…
Aug 6, 2026
In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region.…
Aug 5, 2026
Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory. Original article:…
Aug 4, 2026
Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently?…
Jul 29, 2026
Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution. Original article:…
Jul 28, 2026
No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes. Original article:…
Jul 27, 2026
After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead.…
Jul 27, 2026
In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups…
Jul 27, 2026
The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to housing…
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