Mises Daily

Conservatives' idea of public policy is to outspend the statists and outregulate the regulators. And, writes Norman Barry, they have lost six million votes since 1992.

It's true that antitrust is inefficient. More fundamentally, it is an attack on private property rights. William Anderson explains. 

Sometimes you have to make a choice between man and the natural world. As Tibor Machan notes, environmentalists often side against man. 

The city of Chicago has a long, notorious history of corrupt and intrusive politicians who care nothing about personal freedom. Douglas Carey did not realize how bad it truly was until he moved to there. 

Martin Mayer is one of the few financial journalists to seriously question the claims of the Federal Reserve. Sadly, he does not go far enough. 

The Alternative Minimum Tax was supposed to soak the rich. Predictably, it is now poised to soak huge swaths of the middle class.

The purpose of the Patients' Bill of Rights is to destroy HMOs and pave the way for the complete socialization of American health care. William Anderson explains. 

John Locke's great Second Treatise of Government was the decisive influence on the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Here are crucial excerpts.

Jack Kemp writes in favor of the gold standard. But will his plan bring sound money? Steve Piraino says no.

A federal judge rules: No drilling allowed. Tibor Machan explains why this is not a "victory for the California coast."