Mises Wire

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. 

The recent declaration of the G7 sounds more like "we want to rule the world" than "we want peace." Other nations are tired of the West's phony Rules Based Order.

Jamaica is on the road to becoming a republic, but will that lead to economic freedom or to the statism that has held back that country since independence from Great Britain?

How do we view government ownership of natural resources? Can a homesteading case be made for it? Usually not.