Mises Daily

Why the attempt to eliminate social and economic inequality always and everywhere ends in massive coercion. 

This year's political campaigns highlight at least one positive trend: the "best and brightest," who nearly wrecked us, are no longer wasting their talents serving the state. 

In the last several decades, step by step, the system has become Diocletianized.

If you want your phone number unlisted, you have to pay for the privilege--a typical bureaucratic inversion of the prevailing market rule. 

The Gore and Bradley plans to "fix" health care will do nothing of the sort. Neither addresses the key problem of the current system.

Government has an influence over programming because of an age-old political decision to nationalize the airwaves. 

The nation state just isn't what it used to be--and it's a good thing too.

Richard Cantillon is virtually unknown today, but he pioneered a new way to examine social and economic affairs.  

Gary Wills's new book condemns distrust of government, and then fails in an attempt to cloak statist bias in historical garb. 

If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era.