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Double Your Gift on Mises’s Birthday!

Today marks the birthday of Ludwig von Mises, and a chance to double your impact.

Mises was the most important scholar of the twentieth century, a man who not only revolutionized our understanding of economic science, but was also a powerful champion of liberty and property and the greatest enemy of socialists of all kinds.

In the world today, we are seeing what Mises feared. Our institutions have been infested with the products of a university system hostile to private property and individual liberty. We are governed by power-hungry technocrats seeking more and more control. Today the justification is covid. Tomorrow it may be “climate change” or central bank–fueled inflation.

The crisis may change, but their answer will remain the same: the sacrifice of our freedom to the whims of would-be central planners.

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Our mission is simple: keep lit the torch of civilized society that Ludwig von Mises has passed down to us.

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