Mises Daily

Murray Rothbard writes in defense of the spoils system. It's the one protection we have against bureaucratic dictatorship.

Fifteen glorious years without a central government in Somalia! Well, now this "vacuum" is being filled, writes Lew Rockwell.

The federal government, writes Tom DiLorenzo, is no longer capable of plundering middle-class taxpayers through bracket creep, thanks to indexation. But state and local governments can through the vehicle of property taxation.

Remember those silly days in the 1990s, when Clinton, Gore, and their friends cobbled together our money to put computers in every classroom and community center? The hope was that the computer would at last do what the government has so far been unable to do after a century of work: make every child literate and high-minded. It turned out that most of the new computers gathered dust and became obsolete.

Robert Murphy, as an Austrian economist, welcomes just about any criticism of the neoclassical mainstream. However, some of the proponents of the newfangled ways often overstep when they criticize "flaws" with basic economic principles.

Rod Dreher's new book is long on sage advice for how we should all live, writes Jeffrey Tucker, but Dreher has put no thought into the economic implications of his vision.

I'm trying to order a hamburger, medium well, but the cook was involved in heated argument with the customer who was insisting that DSL is better and faster than cable for a home internet connection.

Only last week, Kabul, Afghanistan, was on fire with mass outrage, writes Lew Rockwell. Today curfews and martial law reign, barely keeping a temporary lid on a situation that cannot last. The 23,000 foreign troops there are outnumbered and under fire. The riots in Kabul are an ominous sign for the US empire.

Inflationomics, writes Hans Sennholz, indicates the sway of inflation thought in education and the affairs of government.