I want to make sure you saw the letter Lew Rockwell wrote a few days ago. Won’t you take a few minutes right now to respond and make a donation ? Lew’s letter talks about the tremendous sacrifices Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard made in pursuit of truth and ideas. Both put intellectual freedom ahead of money, status, and academic career
The Most Important Election of our Lifetime™ may be a referendum on Trump, Kavanaugh, #metoo, migrant caravans, or any number of manufactured outrages since the 2016 presidential election. It will not be a referendum on foreign policy, the Federal Reserve, debt, spending entitlements, spying, civil liberties, or anything important with regard to
Brian Doherty at Reason magazine has a new article that attempts to dispel certain myths surrounding “cultural Marxism,” a term used promiscuously and inaccurately in Mr. Doherty’s view. Fair enough, but the article sheds more heat than light on what is in fact a very illiberal and powerful phenomenon in western countries. Cultural Marxism and
Are you a Murray Rothbard fan? Do you love his writing? His clarity and style? His razor-sharp economic analysis? His penchant for slaying sacred cows? Then you’ll want to be part of our exciting new project — but we need your help to make it happen. The Mises Institute hopes to publish an epic Murray Rothbard compendium, tentatively titled
[Editors note: The new fourth edition of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles is now available at the Mises Bookstore. ] Jesús Huerta de Soto is probably the most important Austro-libertarian thinker you’re not reading, but there’s an easy solution. His incredible banking treatise, titled Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles , is free
An audio version of this article is available here . We are accustomed to predatory language from politicians, but this issuance from Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy’s twitter account yesterday is particularly telling: Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.
[Editor’s note: our immigration roundtable is a series of articles presenting the views of prominent Austrian and libertarian thinkers. By necessity each article provides only a basic overview of those views, with links to original sources.] An audio version of this article is available here . Immigration remains a contentious issue in the US and
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking at a Ron Paul Institute conference this past weekend, predicted US troops would remain in Afghanistan another 50 years — just as they have in Germany and Korea. He also termed the ongoing US-backed campaign in Yemen the “most brutal war on earth,” a war western media overwhelming ignore. Colonel Douglas
You can help the Mises Institute publish an exciting new book this spring from one of our Senior Fellows, and it couldn’t be more timely. Dr. Mark Thornton’s text — titled The Skyscraper Curse — is his definitive work on booms and busts, and it explains why only Austrian economists really understand them. It makes business cycle theory accessible
Can political arrangements be dissolved peacefully? Legally? At the ballot box? By referendum? Or by any other mechanism short of outright violence and civil war? According to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the answer to these questions is no. Speaking in California yesterday on the subject of immigration and sanctuary cities, he issued this
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