Lockdowners and “the Desire to Dominate”
Bizarrely, people from Paul Krugman to Tyler Cowen seems to think that libertarians rule the world and that everything that has gone wrong is libertarians’ fault. Original Article: “Lockdowners and …
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Humanism: Progressive Philosophy at Odds with Itself
ABSTRACT: Humanism is a longstanding intellectual tradition dedicated to moral, aesthetic, and social perfectibility. Classical liberalism and modern libertarianism are products of classical humanist thinking; so is Enlightenment humanism, which …
How the Left Uses “Science” To Extend Its Bias In Media and Academia
The 2020 election has revealed jaw-dropping levels of “liberal” or progressive bias in the media, from the increasing ascendance of woke language, enforced by the thought police, to deliberately ignored …
Massachusetts Is Back with More “Right to Repair” Nonsense
The new “right to repair” measure on the ballot in Massachusetts has very little to do with rights, and a lot to do with new costly and bureaucratic mandates on …
Austrian Perspectives on Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Organization
Austrian Perspectives on Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and OrganizationNicolai Foss, Peter Klein, and Matthew McCaffreyCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 75 pp. Ludvig Levasseur ([email protected]) is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship at Indian …
Why Threats of Election Violence May Be Here to Stay
A repeated pattern of close elections accompanied by threats of violence (or actual violence) is a sign that something is wrong with a nation’s political system. Original Article: “Why Threats …
The Idea that Democracy Is the Same as Liberty Is a Weapon in the Hands of Despots
Probably no other belief is now so much a threat to liberty… as the one that democracy, by itself alone, guarantees liberty. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by …
Socialists Have Never Shown How They Could Increase the Standard of Living
[A selection from Nation, State, and Economy. Editor’s note: When Mises refers to “liberals” or “liberalism” he means the ideology of laissez-faire, sometimes now called “classical liberalism.”] Marxism sees the coming …
The Benefits of Secession Are Becoming Increasingly Obvious
“Countries threaten to split apart when their people seem hopelessly divided…. We’re less united today than we’ve been at any time since the Civil War.” This Audio Mises Wire is …
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem Exposes a Big Problem with Democracy
Kenneth Arrow showed in 1951 that the entire project of social choice theory rested on quicksand. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack. …