Mises Wire

Before there was Thomas Jefferson, there was Wilhelm von Humboldt, who saw the importance of guarding against the encroachment of state power.

The Federal Trade Commission is unwisely trying to block a merger between Microsoft and Activism. The result is more monopoly and higher prices. 

"The basic root of the controversy over slavery to secession, in my opinion, was the aggressive, expansionist aims of the Southern 'slavocracy.'"

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.