Mises Wire

While the libertarian tradition of Murray Rothbard has supported individual rights, the modern idea of civil rights and the laws behind them are a different matter altogether.

Government not only has a monopoly on law enforcement and “justice,” but it also protects that monopoly against anyone who might seek justice outside the purview of the state. 

Austrian economists differ with the economic mainstream in many ways, but the break on utility theory is especially critical in understanding the split between the two schools of economic thought.

Although New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani has made some very popular promises, his litany of free stuff will run headlong into economic reality soon enough.

As both left and right throw freedom and free markets over the side, we remember that there still is a remnant that understands why these things make for a good society. Albert J. Nock eloquently reminds us of what we are losing.

Total job gains have now averaged a paltry 29,000 for the past three months. The job growth we do see is part-time work.

The “woke left” and “woke right” are lumped together as two types of “woke.” But it is intellectually lazy and obscures truth to identify all opponents as the same because of superficial similarities.

After being bamboozled by the fake crisis of “overpopulation” for a half-century, the nations with advanced economies are coming to grips with the “birth dearth” problems ahead of them. Not surprisingly, governments are compounding their earlier anti-population errors.

While libertarians, and many conservatives, often rightly discuss problems of government intervention, there is a counterintuitive category where the government simultaneously monopolizes, taxes, and refuses to provide promised services.

When most people speak of the founders of the United States, Thomas Paine rarely comes to mind. However, few men were more influential in rallying the American colonials to independence.