If you want to buy a book or DVD from the Web site of Writer David Irving, you’ll no longer be able to use your American Express card, and that wasn’t Irving’s idea. It was the idea, evidently, of New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents the district of Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. Accusing Irving of neo-Nazism for Irving’s
Though the British mainstream media buried this story for as long as they could, this three-minute speech by Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament, attacking the economic policies of British Labor-Party Prime Minister Gordon Brown, garnered over 2 million viewers through the Internet. That such a speech arouses this much interest
“The best conceived and most desirable solution to the Austrian question is a monarchy with the legacy of the Habsburger tradition.” [Memo to Otto von Habsburg, dated New York, April 20, 1942, and never before published] Response to His Majesty’s Interrogatory The term “legitimism” is usually used for a claim to power that is unrelated to the
Anthropogenic global warming has been a dubious proposition from the outset to anyone with the slightest understanding of social science as it pertains to coercive government, science “science,” and the nexus of the two. Even if you didn’t read about it elsewhere (and there were places where you could), you could (and should) have easily thought
It probably began with the 50 or so statewide unions barring anyone who didn’t pass the state exam from pronouncing accounting opinions. It hit high gear when FDR’s Congress (and it WAS FDR’s Congress) established the Securities and Exchange Commission and put crooked Joseph P. Kennedy in charge of it. Then came Enron and the establishment of the
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, uttered inconvenient truths to those who would manage the world’s economies in a startling plenitude that could be neither ignored nor validly denied. Her speech made the front page of Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal. While blasting both the power wielded by the US Fed and the Bank of England and the
The (immortal) German state of Bavaria, it seems, claims and exercises ownership rights in respect of Adolf Hitler’s bestseller, Mein Kampf . Sixty-four years after the author’s death, this article in Haaretz recounts the prosecution in Poland of an entrepreneur who got 20,000 copies printed up, presumably in Polish. Just what market it
One of the many myths today receiving retrospective support from today’s servants of power is that adherence to the gold standard caused the economy in countries that did so in the 1930s to recover more slowly from the Depression. Probably the leading proponent of this apology is Barry Eichengreen, author of the very-successful “Golden Fetters.”
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.