We didn’t announce the new header yesterday because, well, it is rather obvious. We are still tweaking things here and there, of course, but we have been so very pleased at how smoothly it has gone. Meanwhile, Wayback, the website museum, collects: Mises.org from 1996 (the wheel invented), 1997 (more than just an ad), 1998 (frames, remember
At the Mises University this year, there will be another performance of “ Mises: The Musical “ that will feature some changes from the last performance, though they won’t be as substantial as the ones made by Daniel D’Amico in this innovative version of the Mises Circle song: “Mr. Stonier and Mr. Sweezy.” The original in German tells the story of
I was just having a conversation with a visiting political philosopher from Northern Italy. He asked about a sense he has picked up from American political philosphy literature and culture. He said, and he was cautious in saying so, that he sensed that “Rothbard seems to be somehow ostracized by the profession.” He meant that mainstream books and
I’m trying to order a hamburger, medium well, but the cook was involved in heated argument with the customer who was insisting that DSL is better and faster than cable for a home internet connection. ‘Man, DSL rocks!’ ‘You are crazy. DSL ain’t nothing. Cable’s bandwidth rocks!’ ‘You are paying for nothing. You can’t download nothing on cable!’ And
Remember those silly days in the 1990s, when Clinton, Gore, and their friends cobbled together our money to put computers in every classroom and community center? The hope was that the computer would at last do what the government has so far been unable to do after a century of work: make every child literate and high-minded. It turned out that
Based on correspondence from this blog item on kids and the web, the number-one issue that makes parents reluctant about the web is its red-light district. Well, let me cut to the chase: K9webprotection is a free program that solves the problem, and better than any of the others I’ve tried. A household with computers and kids has no excuse not to
This is a fascinating review of Rothbard’s economic treatise , by Henry Hazlitt, published in National Review, September 25, 1962. He loves the book, of course, but introduces criticisms toward the end, particularly pertaining to the Rothbardian perspective on repudiating government debt, the legalization of blackmail, and the strict distinction
Web junkies have become accustom to the idea that anything Google does is glorious, so it has come as something of a shock to realize that the its takeover of Blogger has been, well, not going well. In fact, for many people, the conversion has been a calamity. Among those blogs that have converted, hundreds, perhaps thousands, perhaps hundreds of
Hey, remember that blue flu that was going to sweep through America, kill millions, and require martial law and central planning of just about everything? I’m guessing that most everyone has forgotten about it. What a country! The president makes a hysterical speech calling for central planning, billions are spent on preparation and “cures,” the
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.