Private Property

Not a Snow Job; or, Spontaneous Order in Winter.

Everything in human life is organized around how we make decisions about three things: scarcity, property, and relationships.

The Paris attacks forced the world's attention away from causes such as the plight of "white privilege" on college campuses and back to the consequences of blowback to interventionist foreign policy. Unfortunately, the political response to these atrocities have been predictable.

Much of the immigration we witness today is not a result of market outcomes, but are government-subsidized migrations. Libertarians defending these mass migrations as if they were market phenomena are only helping to discredit and undermine the true free market.

This week, the dangers of the authoritarian PC culture was driven to the forefront of the national conversation by students at Mizzou. Fortunately, Mises Scholars launched a pre-emptive strike against PC and the degenerating university system at last weekend's Mises Circle in Phoenix. 

When the Soviet Union wanted to take away the rights of Catholics to worship, it confiscated their churches. The Soviets knew that the right to own property is intimately connected to a right of religious freedom. Pope Francis appears to not understand this.

New York State Attorney General says that fantasy football is just as bad for you as the State Lottery. The lottery is actually much worse!

When you're unpopular, free speech sounds pretty great. But once you control the reins of power, free speech is really just an inconvenience, as the recent rise of the American left with its speech codes and trigger warnings has shown us.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Phoenix.

Never published before, this short essay about Ludwig von Mises by his personal assistant, Bettina Bien Greaves, outlines what it was about Mises's creativity and scholarship that made him truly unique.