Mises Daily

Writes Jeffrey Tucker: even that law which appears to be a mere guideline and a help--such as a stop sign--must ultimately be enforced by jails and violence.
 

Roderick Long, editor of the JLS, examines and updates Rothbard's "Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty," a powerful piece of writing that had a huge impact on Long's own intellectual formation.

In the marketplace, the consumers decide what is "improved." But in government institutions like schools, those doing the "improving" don't care what the consumers think. In fact, they only have a single strategy: spend more tax money.

Much of the left is against the Iraq war, and so far so good. But, writes Gregory Bresiger, they theorize that the driving force behind the war is capitalism, with imperialism as the highest stage.

At the core of praxeology lies the incontrovertible proposition that humans act. Here, G. Stolyarov defends a validation of the action axiom.

What can homesteading mean in a world without frontiers? Manuel Lora and Jeffrey Tucker argue that examples are all around us.

A third Industrial Revolution is now making its appearance in the United States and other industrial countries, writes Hans Sennholz.

Mises was the first to state it so plainly and clearly: "The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production."

The current administration’s effort to promote competition in the music industry is picking up steam. Last month Arnold Tinker, spokesperson for the Department of Justice, said during the official press conference that “Mariah Carey’s continued refusal to abide by the strictures of the 2004 agreement on uncompetitive practices has led us to invoke Article 56 of Section 8 from the same”.

Mises never gave up the term liberalism: "The question could rather be raised whether, in the interest of facilitating the diffusion of liberal ideas, one ought not to give the ideology of liberalism a new name... Such a suggestion would be well-intentioned, but completely antithetic to the spirit of liberalism."