As Congress and the pundits continue to debate the so-called Patients’ Bill of Rights, it becomes clear that much of the discussion reflects both cynicism and naiveté. Conservatives who oppose the bill on both matters of principle and practicality say that it will invoke the “law of unintended consequences,” in that it will open the doors for
[Posted May 15, 2003] As we observe the current frenzy of lawyers preparing to sue McDonald’s and Burger King —and even suing Kraft Foods , the maker of Oreos—for allegedly causing their clients to suffer from obesity, we cannot help but wonder what lunatics have taken over the U.S. legal system. This current litigation, which is done in the name
I have a friend serving time in the federal prison camp near Cumberland, Maryland, and I visit him whenever possible. (Like many other federal prisoners, he should not be incarcerated at all, but that is material for another story at another time.) During my last visit, we were discussing prison medical care, or the lack thereof. “Bill,” he said,
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.