HL Mencken is the writer you need to read immediately. He was savagely brilliant, caustic, and witty, but also prolific across genres in ways almost unthinkable of journalists today. His skill with the English language was virtually unmatched in the 20th century, as was his deep and abiding contempt for utopian statism in any form. And his
Wall Street Journal and USA Today writer James Bovard joins Jeff Deist to diagnose what’s wrong with our body politic today. From relentlessly tribal voting to rank hypocrisy and “whataboutism,” Americans are an angry bunch. And their credulous belief in the sanctity of authorities like the FBI is almost entirely determined by whether their party
No matter who wins the presidential election next month, the media and the political class will whoop up the result as another triumph of American democracy. Regardless that the winning candidate’s path to power was paved with lies and shenanigans, we will be assured that “the system works.” But the only certainty at this point is that America
I was born in Iowa, raised in the mountains of Virginia, and attended Virginia Tech sporadically from 1974 to 1976 before dropping out to try my luck writing. At some point in the late 1970s, individual liberty became my highest political value and I resolved to do what I could to defend it. I had seen the federal government sabotage the currency,
Nací en Iowa, me crié en las montañas de Virginia, y asistí a Virginia Tech esporádicamente de 1974 a 1976 antes de abandonar para probar mi suerte escribiendo. En algún momento a finales de los 70, la libertad individual se convirtió en mi mayor valor político y decidí hacer lo que pudiera para defenderla. Había visto al gobierno federal sabotear
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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.
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