The Second Round of Lockdowns Won’t Be as Easy as the First
A second round of lockdowns will assault an America already suffering from widespread unemployment and a fragile economy. Even worse, round two is likely to last longer than round one, …
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How Historians Changed the Meaning of “Liberalism”
Understandably enough, the current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred what Raimondo Cubeddu (1997: 138) refers to as “the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal.” Many writers today …
The Disastrous Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University has made it official: Woodrow Wilson’s name no longer will have any place on campus. The former president, or at least his memory, now is part of cancel culture, …
All You Need to Know about Alexis de Tocqueville
[Ralph Raico, Alexis de Tocqueville (Auburn: Mises Institute, 2017), 94 pp.] Before he died in 2016, the historian Ralph Raico—an expert on the history of classical liberalism—donated his personal notes and library …
The Forgotten Greatness of Rothbard’s Preface to Theory and History
Providing the opening for Mises’s great methodological work gave Rothbard the opportunity to set down his perspective on the importance of the praxeological method. This Audio Mises Wire is generously …
1918: A Study in How Disease Can Shape Public Policy
Did the hardliners win at Versailles because the Americans were too weak with the flu to object? If so, it would be just one way that disease profoundly affected public …
Mateusz Machaj on the Structure of Production in Economic Theory, and the Political Philosophy of the Star Wars Prequels
Austrian economist and Mises Institute Fellow Mateusz Machaj discusses two of his books. The first is a technical work explaining how the Austrian structure of production concept can help resolve …
Peter Klein: Four Considerations for the Delegation of Derived Judgment
Key Takeaways And Actionable Insights For entrepreneurs, the future is not risky, it’s uncertain. Risk is a calculable mathematical probability, like the result of 1000 tosses of a (fair) coin, …
Review: Beyond Brexit: A Programme for UK Reform
Beyond Brexit: A Programme for UK ReformThe Policy Reform GroupLondon: Sage Publications, 201993 pp. Abstract: Beyond Brexit: A Programme for UK Reform is a series of essays compiled by the …
The Problem with Government “Contact Tracing”
As states move through phases of reopening, “contact tracing” has remained a topic of national interest. For months now, talking heads in the government and media have hailed the strategy …