On this week’s episode, we feature a talk by Dr. Ron Paul at the Mises Circle in Houston. Dr. Paul gives a great speech on the ideas of liberty, and also includes a reference to how Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to understand that the Plymouth colony experiment in America was actually a
Jeff Deist joins David Gornoski to discuss the impending train-wreck of runaway government spending, and why the average person doesn’t feel the effects of huge foreign-policy expenditures by government. They also talk about the influence of media outlets during catastrophic events such as the recent terrorist attack in Sri Lanka. David
I recently saw the documentary They Shall Not Grow Old , an account by English soldiers of their experiences in the Great War of 1914-1918. Culled from hundreds of hours of colorized actual wartime footage, it’s a beautiful and heart wrenching film. It’s also a superb antiwar film, simply through its graphic and accurate depiction of mass death
Today Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. American voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t. Why they did so, and how Trump prevailed, is the biggest political story of our age. But the rejection of progressive hubris, what Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” of those
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
Capitalism is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations. What the incompatibility of war and capitalism really means is that war and high civilization are incompatible. — Ludwig von Mises Peace is popular. That was Ron Paul’s message to our audience in Texas earlier this spring, and it has been his consistent message since first running for
The cliché is true: September 11, 2001, represents a defining American moment. Generation X and Millennials suddenly had their own day of infamy, just as their parents and grandparents had Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination. 9/11 marked the end of a relatively untroubled time in the US following the 1980 and 90s, and the beginning of a
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice All Points Books/St. Martin’s Press 2019 307 pages Conservatism, Michael Malice famously remarks, is progressivism driving the speed limit. Malice’s latest book, aptly titled The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics, documents a movement of sorts to
In the period leading up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration and its media accomplices waged a relentless propaganda campaign to win political support for what turned out to be one of the most disastrous foreign policy mistakes in American history. Nearly two decades later, with perhaps a million dead Iraqis and thousands
Los lectores de los artículos y discursos de Murray Rothbard sobre el colectivismo bélico reconocerán inmediatamente el fervor pietista progresista que rodea al jingoísmo bélico progresista de hoy: ¡todo es Ucrania! La atávica necesidad de analogar la situación actual con la de 1938, con Vladimir Putin como Adolf Hitler y los escépticos de la
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.