This year during Mises University, we want to share the perspective of students in the program. The following are YouTube shorts from some of this year’s Mises Apprentices asking fellow students about the highlights from the first full day of Mises U.

In this short, one of our Mises U students talks to Dr. Patrick Newman, a member of the faculty and a Mises U alum.

Mises University is going on the entire week. You can watch live from home at mises.org/live.

Overshadowed by the Supreme Court decision in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College that struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina — which was decided on the same day — was the court’s ruling in the case of Groff v. DeJoy. 

A couple of days ago, the New York Times published a story about the brutal authoritarian regime of Aleksandr Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus.

Can computers plan a socialist economy? The idea is not new; it first appeared in the debate over economic calculation, which began in 1920 with Ludwig von Mises’s first article on the topic and continued until 1949. This was a time when computers had recently emerged. Computers were not widespread, but their possibilities were evident.

America’s federally sanctioned entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, each face bankruptcy in the next few years. Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society legislation. Social Security was created in 1935 to provide retirement income for Americans who reached the age of sixty-five.