Mises Daily

In the Paris of the 1720s, writes Sean Corrigan, there took place a duel; a contest of both wills and intellects.

Roderick T. Long argues that a libertarian journal can be both principled and open-ended, radical and scientific, confident of the core and yet internally critical.

A number of writers have, on occasion, claimed to have perceived a con­tradiction in Mises, writes Israel Kirzner. The tension between science and values can, in fact, be resolved.

The movement to privatize Social Security, writes Lew Rockwell, is both ideologically duplicitous and fiscally irresponsible.

Hans Sennholz discusses the many proposals to reform the program and save it from its demographic failings. Demographics, he argues, are a distraction from the core problems.

The authors of a new book make the case that Civil War and the Confederate defeat resulted in an "ideological downfall" for the limited government established by the Founders. Laurence Vance is the reviewer.

Robert Murphy asks: what do various proposals to regulate trade all have in common? They are all attempts to prevent people from cooperating with each other.

Grant Nülle tells of a journalist who just returned from a business trip to Vietnam. A 7-year-old street urchin asked for money, the child refused the man's offer of a dollar, instead specifying euros. 

We do not have to run millions of experiments to see that people value the good received in an exchange over the good given away, writes Marcus Verhaegh. We do not have to run even one experiment to see this. 

A Thanksgiving visit to my Texas hometown provokes the question: it is possible to adore the people and enterprising ethics of a place while abhorring its politics of nonchalant imperialism?