Mises Institute Distinguished Scholar Judge Napolitano today examines the current Pope’s economics : Traditional Catholic social teaching imposes on all of us a moral obligation to become our brothers’ keepers. But this is a personal moral obligation, enforced by conscience and Church teaching and the fires of Hell — not by the coercive powers of
[Editor’s Note: This is an old interview from the Harvard Political Review , reprinted here for the use of our readers and students.] Mark Thornton is an Austrian economist and senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian academic organization dedicated to scholarship of the Austrian School as inspired by Ludwig von Mises. In the
The Daily Caller reports : Ron Paul is not a fan of Janet Yellen, the newly confirmed Chair of the Federal Reserve, but he told The Daily Caller Monday she is nowhere near as flawed as the system she is about to take over. “She’s worse than average,” the former Texas congressman told The Daily Caller in a phone interview shortly after the Senate
Celebrate Star Wars Day: Here Are My Review/Previews of the Prequels. It’s all About the Battle of Ideas! Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review of Star Wars: The Attac k of the Clone s Preview of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith .
Many drug law reformers are frightful over who President-elect Donald Trump will appoint to his cabinet to oversee the war on drugs. Might there be a crackdown and reversal of marijuana law reform? While a president’s cabinet choices are always a concern, a big picture analysis shows that efforts to legalize and decriminalize drugs are spreading
The National Institute for Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently released a disturbing report on drug overdose deaths. The number of drug overdoses from both legal and illegal drugs increased from approximately 22,000 in 2002 to over 52,000 in 2016, making it a leading cause of accidental death. Even more disturbing is the
Michael Oliver, the man who coined the term Anarcho-capitalism is interviewed on Jeff Berwick’s Anarchast . Oliver is now a market technician, but over 40 years ago he wrote a book: The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism. In the book he shows that Ayn Rand’s objectivism needs the economics and political theory of Murray Rothbard. Oliver and
This article published in the Monthly Review, March 2005 , meaning this year, not a century ago: “The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism; socialism, that is, as the socialist movement always meant it to be: revolutionary, democratic, egalitatarian, environmental, necessitating mass
Jacques Chirac seems to be on the verge of waging all out war against the gravest possible threat to his country: ultra-liberalism (hint: that’s what Misesians favor). He has announced that ultra-liberalism is the “communism of our time” because it poses a threat the Euro social model in which politicians and bureacrats run people’s lives. Good
Reuters reports : “The vice president reported receiving $21,674 in gifts, including three fishing rods, a pair of $615 leather hunting boots and a $399 cowboy hat. The gifts were from individuals as well as groups such as the Fraser Institute in Canada and a company, Hatco Inc., of Texas which gave him the cowboy
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