Wanjiru Njoya

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12/01/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

Modern progressive political narratives depend heavily upon the misuse of words, changing their meaning in hopes that people will forget what they originally meant. Politics corrupts our very language itself.

History Is Not a Science

11/24/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

Some modern historians claim they are “doing science.” However, Ludwig von Mises in Theory and History decried what he saw as “scientism” instead of real scientific inquiry.

The Difference between Formal and Substantive Equality

11/17/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

When we think of the term “equality,” most of us think of it in a formal sense: equality under the law. However, political elites are demanding “substantive” equality, which is impossible to achieve.

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How to Recognize Critical Race Theory

10/28/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

Despite the change in the White House, critical race theory is still with us, dominating the academic sectors and being ingrained in progressive culture. We need to better recognize what it is and how it works in order to better refute it.

How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It

10/21/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

Individualism and the Violence of the Identitarian Left

10/06/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining every supposed peaceful goal they claim to be pursuing.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.