We’ve all listened to the incessant criminalizing of SUVs and of those who have a fondness for driving them. The anti-SUV crowd is led by the maniacal green people, though they are joined by the carpool fanciers and the general collectivist rank-and-file that despises anything remotely resembling status or success. And, let’s face it, an imposing
You see it in daycare centers, and you see it in the public schools, from kindergarten to high school. Group projects abound, shoving together individuals who have no formal bonds, yet are banded together for the purpose of collective decision-making. Universities, both public and private, are not immune to this affliction. In fact, if you attend
Every wartime president is hailed as one of the great ones, including Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, and, now, Bush. In polls of presidential “greatness,” the former three constantly rank at or near the top. In presidential popularity polls since 9/11, Bush’s fashionableness has skyrocketed. The talk is that he is another one certain to “go down in history
Once again, the nation has been graced with the mothering wing of its congressional collective. The Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act (CARTA) passed the House with a whopping 334-90 tally, opening the doors to unbridled regulatory madness in the wake of Arthur Andersen’s Enron-related transgressions.
Freedom havens are always of interest to libertarians. For instance, the Free State Project hopes to establish liberty in our lifetime by designating a single U.S. state as the center for political downsizing and constitutional federalism. Offshore havens such as Bermuda and Vanuatu are gaining notoriety for their favorable taxation and
Jim Bovard, in the words of the Orange County Register , is “Washington’s most hated truth-teller.” In his latest book, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil , he sustains that long-standing reputation with surefire dignity and aplomb. You get a feeling about a book and its author, when, in the
Years ago I began to cease eating pork because I came to despise it, but at the time, I didn’t really know why that was the case. I was turned off by the dry, white, crumbly texture and the inability to cook most pork cuts—with the exception of some ribs or roasts—in such a manner that I could retain the moisture and integrity of taste. The
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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.
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.