Ludwig Von Mises saw Austrian economics sinking in the US when he and Margit emigrated to the US in 1940 escaping German Nazi persecution of Jews. He died in 1973 at the age of 93. Margit, after Mises’s passing, gave consent to Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. and others to establish the Mises Institute to host his publications and propagate Austrian economics to the world.
Like those of us who remember the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, along with the downing of Flight 93, evoke clear memories of what people were doing when they heard about the event. The news was stunning, hard to comprehend, and made people fear for the future—and perhaps that fear was justified.
The shooter, who is reportedly still at large, fired from a distance.
Few questions have divided liberals over the centuries more than the place of religion in a free society. Some have seen faith as irrelevant to liberty, a separate sphere best kept sealed off entirely from politics. Others have viewed it as the very enemy of freedom, pointing to centuries of clerical repression. Still others argued that religion was useful, a prop to social cohesion for a regime of limited government.
New from the Journal of Libertarian Studies:
A new CPI inflation report will be released tomorrow. But we won’t have to wait for that to witness the growing chorus of pundits and politicians who are already declaring that price inflation doesn’t matter anymore, and the Federal Reserve must start a new round of monetary inflation and low-interest-rate policy.
A core principle of Marxism—the socialist system upon which is founded the more authoritarian political systems of communism and progressive fascism—is government ownership of the means of production. This economic policy, aimed as a dagger at capitalism, happens to be the avant garde economic policy position taken a couple of times now by the Trump administration. It is the same position advocated in the larger context by the self-described communist candidate, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for mayor of New York City.
In the wake of 9/11, many assumed that Islamic suicide terrorism was simply the product of religious fanaticism. Yet Robert Pape’s pioneering research showed otherwise.
