In the last few weeks, we have seen self-described democratic socialists winning primary elections across the country. Most were closely associated with Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who became mayor of New York City this year, who is seen by many on the left as a figure who is finally able to enact the kind of agenda that had made Bernie Sanders and AOC popular in previous election cycles.
President Trump was reportedly “shocked” to see many thousands of Iranians in the street mourning at the funeral of the country’s late leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over the weekend. Khamenei was assassinated by the United States at the beginning of the February US surprise attack on Iran.
The US attack on Iran was sold to Trump by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US neocons as an easy “cake walk” that would lead the Iranian government to fall and be replaced with a US-friendly regime.
“I thought they hated him,” Trump said of the murdered religious leader of Iran.
As our regular readers surely have noticed by now, 2026 is both the 100th anniversary of Rothbard’s birth, and also the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. So what better way to commemorate all this together than to promote Rothbard’s massive history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty?
Contrary to some modern, sanitized versions of the history of the American Revolution, the real Revolutionary War in the United States was a thoroughly violent affair. Proportionally, the war displaced a larger number of people than even the French Revolution, and more Americans died in that war than in any other American war. (The overall numbers are small because the population of North America was very small at the time.)
Jeffrey Degner writes that we cannot fix families through state intervention.
Recently, the Independent Institute published a new collection of essays on relatively obscure economists. Both professionals and lay people alike will undoubtedly find that one of the pleasures of reading Unsung Heroes of the Market: The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know is in discovering how many important thinkers have quietly shaped modern economics without ever becoming household names.
