Small States, Global Economy: Is Empire Necessary?
[This talk was delivered on October 27, 2006, at Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, the 2006 Mises Institute Supporter’s Summit. The audio is available in MP3 from Mises Media.] Deepak Lal, …
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Why Americans Abandoned Smuggling in Favor of Lobbying and Welfare
The American public’s hunger for liberty has decidedly diminished since colonial times. How has a people who once embraced subversive behavior in the name of liberty become complacent with an …
Climate Change: Fred Singer’s Classic Critique
Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate. Third edition.by S. Fred Singer with David R. Legates and Anthony R. LupoIndependent Institute, 2020234 pages. During the Senate confirmation hearings for …
Is Gold Money?
Is gold money? Many would say so, and a web search returns tens of thousands of additional affirmative responses. If you want to start a fight with a gold bug, take …
Only Ideological Change Can Make the World a More Peaceful Place
Those of us who support a noninterventionist foreign policy find in Murray Rothbard’s work an inexhaustible source of facts and arguments. Mises, by contrast, usually doesn’t comment on foreign policy …
No, The Chinese Won’t Invade America If Secessionists Succeed
When political secession starts to become more of a realistic policy goal—and less of a theoretical ideal for the future—that is precisely when we can expect opposition to become the …
Yet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don’t Work
Although advocates for covid-19 lockdowns continue to insist that they save lives, actual experience keeps suggesting otherwise. On a national level, just eyeballing the data makes this clear. Countries that …
The Myths Behind the “Capitalism Is Racist” Claim
Though numerous studies prove the contrary, it is still widely assumed that capitalism perpetuates racism. Celebrities and academics incessantly broadcast the message that capitalism engenders racism. For example, recently on …
“Victim-Centered” Justice Is a Threat to Due Process
“Trauma-informed justice” has percolated in academia and activism for decades. It is now knocking on the door of local police departments to demand changes that could upend the basics of how …
What Biden/Harris Will Do
Paraphrasing the late Murray Rothbard, the “two party” system in America during the twentieth century worked something like this: Democrats engineered the Great Leaps Forward, and Republicans consolidated the gains. Wilson, …