What is the real purpose of policing?
While previous criminal justice reformers asked how to make it more just or more humane, Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was more concerned that behind the apparent humanization of the prison system hid the guileful calculations of power.
For conservative leaders like Buckley, what really matters is that you support the American imperial warfare state. The stuff about freedom is window dressing.
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) was one of the most influential defenders of market liberalism in the twentieth century. His work is best known for demonstrating why central planning fails not merely for incentive reasons, but because of a deeper epistemic constraint: the impossibility of centralizing dispersed knowledge.
Senator Lindsey Graham died seemingly out of the blue over the weekend after a tear in his aorta. He was 71 years old.
The news was shocking, in part because Graham was a very active senator—he was just returning from a trip to Ukraine—and because he was seemingly at the height of his power, having built one of the most influential relationships with President Donald Trump of any politician.
Editor’s Note: Judge Napolitano’s preface below speaks to why the Progressive Era is so key to our understanding of modern America. This is the first of many selections from the book we will be offering at mises.org in the future.
John Prince Smith was the creator of the German free trade movement and its leader from the 1840s until his death in 1874.1 He was born in London in 1809, and, after leaving Eton prematurely, on account of the death of his father, began working at the age of thirteen for a London commercial firm, later turning to journalism.
