“Freedom to roam” is marketed as a wholesome civic ideal: fresh air, exercise, social inclusion, a nation’s natural beauty shared by all. But beneath the sentimental branding is a simple legal transformation: your neighbor’s boundary stops being a boundary when the state decides your recreation matters more than his consent. That is not liberty. It is the political re-labeling of trespass.
I was very new to Austrian economics when I came to Mises University in 2009. Ron Paul had inspired me to read works like Economics in One Lesson and a few other beginner-level books. The ideas were intriguing, so I attended Mises University to get a deeper understanding.
Class conflict, as Marxists preach it, must be taught. Workers do not spontaneously see themselves as historical agents of class war. Would workers automatically rise up merely because monopolies exist? No.
In a genuine free market, coercive monopoly cannot exist. Monopoly, properly defined, is an exclusive privilege granted by the state. Without state protection, market dominance remains contestable.
After President Trump decided to join with the Israeli government to launch this new war on Iran, establishment Democrats have struggled to find an angle to attack the president’s decision.
They have struggled because, despite the false characterization pushed on Fox News, most centrist Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of both the Israeli government and the joint US/Israeli strategy of containing Iran to protect Israeli hegemony in the Middle East.
The February 2026 strike on Iran has raised serious questions about both the credibility and sustainability of US leadership in the region.
Goats are everywhere in Malawi. With a population exceeding 10 million as of 2024 and growing, they will surely overtake the human adult population of 12 million soon if they haven’t already.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this… pic.twitter.com/prtu86DpEr— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) March 17, 2026
“Ask yourself whether you are willing to kill in an unjust war, whether decrees from the US government can provide sufficient moral justification for you to slaughter folks in Afghanistan or Nicaragua (in my day), or anywhere, and whether being called a coward is more frightening than selling your soul, so to speak.
For me the answer is no, but I am long past the draft age. What is your answer?
Think, consider, and act today!”—Jim Fedako, “Having the Manhood To Be a Coward”
It is often observed that Rothbard’s political opinions were controversial, especially in his later years when he forged an alliance with paleo-conservatives. He defended states’ rights and saluted the heroes of the South—Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest—and that is certainly controversial.
