Finn Andreen

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The EU Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt

03/06/2025 Mises Wire Finn Andreen

The European political and financial elite knows that the war in Ukraine is lost but wants to use it as an opportunity to reach strategic independence from the United States. As the future chancellor...

How the US Became So Dysfunctional, Oligarchic, and Corrupt

01/25/2025 Mises Wire Finn Andreen

Why has the United States’ government become so politically dysfunctional? How can it be that the nation—partially founded on John Locke’s principles of liberty and Montesquieu’s concept of separation...

Real Democracy Can Only Be Freedom

12/13/2024 Mises Wire Finn Andreen

With the advent of representative democracy over a century ago in most of the West, the popular belief was that the “rule of the few” would be relegated to the dustbin of history. This never happened...

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Real Democracy Can Only Be Freedom

01/15/2025 Finn Andreen

Democracy is the watchword with the ruling classes, yet a democratic political system does not protect individual freedoms. Indeed, democracy often has become the main road to socialism. It‘s time for some honest discussion.

The Limits to Public Opinion and the Failure of Democracy

12/09/2024 Finn Andreen

The watchword among progressives this election season is: “Nothing less than our democracy is at stake.” In truth, democracy itself is not in danger, but one can accurately say that “democracy,” as practiced in the US, endangers our lives.

Why Democracy Has Such Staying Power

11/06/2024 Finn Andreen

Democracy, or at least the “democracy” that ensures the “right people” are elected, is the religion of American progressives. Despite its obvious failures, however, progressives claim that democracy is the Holy Grail of governance. Why people believe this is another question.

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