Mises Wire

Independence Day is not a celebration of "America." It's a commemoration of secession and armed revolt.

Being libertarians, the revolutionaries saw no conflict between moral and political rights on the one hand and economic freedom on the other.

All else being equal, a physically large country provides regimes with more opportunities to wage more war, collect more taxes, and control more people.

Do we have a right to sunlight? How do we assert those rights? Murray Rothbard provides some answers.

The conservative judges chose to perpetuate the court's well-established and disastrous use of the Equal Protection Clause. The justices were careful to protect and strengthen federal power. 

As government weight in the economy rises faster, technical recessions may not appear in the official data, but citizens suffer it, nevertheless. 

As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July, they would do well to remember that those who fought for independence would not support the Leviathan state that the USA has become.

The presence of a "natural monopoly" is supposed to be a sufficient reason for government to intervene in the economy. But what if there truly is no such thing as a "natural monopoly"?

Help another group of students discover what you have always known: that freedom makes the great and good possible.

The "distributist" theorists Chesterton and Belloc imagined that economic interventionism could make life easier and more free. Yet their proposed system is neither moral nor practical.