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Opposing Critical Race Theory Doesn't Make You a "White Supremacist"

DemocracyMedia and CulturePoliticsProgressivism

06/17/2023Mises Media
Much of critical race theory and “antiracism” is aimed at pulling people apart, not bringing them together. To oppose such theories and practices is not racist in itself.
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One Year Later in Ukraine: Washington and NATO Got It Very Wrong

PoliticsU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

03/10/2023Mises Media
The foreign policy "elites" have been wrong about regime change, sanctions, "the lesson of Munich," a "rules-based order," and pretty much everything else.
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Objection, Professor Harari! Logic Proves the Existence of Free Will

EducationPhilosophyProgressivism

01/09/2023Mises Media
Yuval Noah Harari, who teaches history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, denies that free will exists. However, to deny free will is to deny human action itself.
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Obama's Forgotten Child Hunger Debacle

EducationProgressivismStrategy

10/04/2022Mises Media
Barack Obama promised to "end child hunger" by 2015. Michelle Obama promised to end childhood obesity. Unfortunately, both increased in large part because of the Obama programs. Today, President Biden will declare war on "hunger in America." Stay tuned.
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rightwrong

On Mises's Ethical Relativism

History of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

09/13/2022Mises Daily Articles
What has happened here, and elsewhere, is that Mises has strayed off his great stomping ground, praxeology, and into ethics, where he is, Rothbard believes, tragically wrong.
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farmer fertilizing

Oferta de capital y prosperidad americana

Free MarketsInterventionismOther Schools of Thought

04/27/2022Mises Daily Articles
El nivel de vida medio en este país es más alto que en cualquier otro país del mundo. Esto se debe a que la cuota per cápita de capital invertido es en América mayor que en otros países.
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int rates

On the Cause and Effect of Interest Rates

Capital and Interest TheoryHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

11/18/2021Mises Daily Articles
It is a common idea that an increased quantity of money in an economy decreases the rate of interest. This idea is not always true or accurate.
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George W. Bush

Our Corporate Oligarchy and the Road to National Socialism

Big GovernmentInterventionismOther Schools of ThoughtPolitical Theory

08/02/2021Mises Daily Articles
The Nazi regime represented not a unique evil in history but rather a now conventional combination of two dangerous ideological trends: nationalism and socialism.
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liberty

On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with That of the Moderns

Free MarketsWorld HistoryPhilosophy and Methodology

12/17/2020Mises Daily Articles
Among the ancients the individual, almost always sovereign in public affairs, was a slave in all his private relations. Among the moderns, the individual, independent in his private life, is sovereign only in appearance.
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wildfire crisis

Opposition to State Power Evaporates Whenever There Is a "Crisis"

Big GovernmentThe Police StateOther Schools of Thought

09/30/2020Mises Daily Articles
To swing a political debate in favor of the state, all it takes is a crisis, either real or imagined. The masses will then abandon whatever resistance they had to the state's latest interventions.
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