Beyond the high-profile assassination of Charlie Kirk, the amount of political violence has greatly increased. What causes political violence to become “popular”? Fortunately, libertarians have drawn attention to this violence, political division, and government-caused chaos, and they also explain the causes and how Austrian economics provides the remedy.

“Poland is a heaven for the nobility, purgatory for the burghers [urbanites; clarification is mine], and hell for the peasants.” — an idiom during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

With the Israeli election this week and America’s midterms next Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have reportedly spent weeks debating not whether to restart their war with Iran, but when they should do it.

The Trump administration has shown no interest in pursuing a policy of peaceful engagement with Cuba based on respect for national sovereignty and the principle of self-determination, during either his first term in office or his current presidency. In fact, on both occasions, the US government has implemented coercive economic measures designed to increase pressure on the Cuban government, with the broader objective of weakening the existing political system and encouraging political change without direct military intervention.

In the classical liberal tradition, and particularly in the thought of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard, the concepts of the nation and the state are neither identical nor necessarily inseparable. The existence of a national and cultural community does not logically require the establishment of a centralized state possessing a territorial monopoly of political authority.