Gold is on the rise, and so is the typical gold-standard nostalgia that has erupted every time price inflation, banking crises, and/or debt concerns have reappeared after the fall of the Bretton Woods...

The Reactionary Containment in the 2024 Election

10/31/2024 Power & Market John Kennedy

On September 29, 2024, President Trump posted on X the Catholic prayer of St. Michael the Archangel alongside a photo of a St. Michael painting by Italian artist Guido Reni. The next day, Russell...

How Intellectual Property Laws Stifle Innovation

10/31/2024 Mises Wire Zahra Mohebi

Innovation has long been considered the lifeblood of human progress, driving advancements in technology, medicine, and countless other fields that improve our quality of life. At its core, the “right...

Will Tuesday’s Vote Counts Be Another Sham Biden-Harris Statistic?

10/30/2024 Mises Wire James Bovard

If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone...

What “Capitalism” Really Means

10/30/2024 Mises Wire Owen Ashworth

Grace Blakeley is a self-described socialist economist and author in the UK, appearing on shows like Politics Live, JOE Politics, and Novara Media. Grace throws down the proverbial gauntlet to self...

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Frank van Dun

Frank van Dun taught philosophy of law at the University of Ghent and the University of Maastricht. See his webpage.

Against Libertarian Legalism: A Comment on Kinsella and Block

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Frank van Dun

What follows is a comment on some of the arguments on intellectual property and blackmail presented respectively by N. Stephan Kinsella and Walter Block in their contributions to the Journal of...

Natural Law, Liberalism, and Christianity

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Frank van Dun

Classical liberalism arose at a time when Christian orthodoxy was still vibrant. Liberalism and Christian orthodoxy, sharing a number of fundamental ideas about the nature of man and of interpersonal...

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