Mises Wire

The popular rap on Wikipedia, the world’s must used information source, and one of the treasures and marvels of the web, is that it is democr

It is clear to anyone who pays attention that IP is under assault–both institutionally, as digital copying, encryption, distributed inform

This time it is Robert Klein and George Reisman writing in

Despite the billions spent since 2001 on intelligence and counterterrorism programs, sophisticated airport scanners and elaborate watch lists, it w

I previously posted “On J.

Bob Murphy eats his critic for dinner

Some insight here:

And you have to read pretty deeply to find that the new h

Maybe it was the holiday spirit. Or maybe it was the impatient line of holiday shoppers anxiously waiting for me to finish paying the cashier.

[The Economist, June 29, 1946. Reprinted in American Affairs, Vol. 8, No.