Mises Daily

The violent protesters in Seattle, smashing windows and hating business, were anarchists of a certain type. Another anarchist tradition upholds private property as inviolable. 

War and methodological empiricism are freedom's greatest enemies. Both must be soundly rejected to achieve the classical ideal of liberty. 

At universities around the country, men's sports programs are being abolished--in compliance with federal law. 

How a bi-partisan accord on Social Security is still costing American taxpayers to this day and will continue to do so in the coming years.

Only the developing countries had it right in Seattle: both the protestors and the leading delegates represent a threat to free trade and enterprise.

The protesters and the Clinton administration are demanding higher wages in the developing world, but this would be the kiss of death for economies around the world. 

Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can't be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
 

Created in the name of free trade, and even backed by some free traders, the World Trade Organization has become what its fine-print promised it would  be: a vehicle for economic planning.

Only 1 in 10 taxpayers are willing to send money to the presidential election fund. What does that tell us, asks Lew Rockwell, about public sentiment concerning government?

It's an illusion and a fraud that there is any stable system between productive capitalism and impoverishing socialism, argues Tibor Machan.