The excellent British online magazine Spiked recently published this article warning about deteriorating attitudes toward elderly people in the UK. As the article points out, there is more to the problem than logistical and financial concerns about providing socialist medical care to an aging population. Nor do increasing lifespans in the West,
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property. — Ludwig von Mises. Civility is the word of the moment. New stories lament the breakdown of civility in American society, while reports of Antifa
You might not particularly care if the Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court or not, but we should care very much about the spectacle playing out in the press and social media. The overall effect is to remind us of Washington DC’s status as the center of the universe, how Supreme Court justices necessarily and justifiably wield
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is a dubious thing at best. First, it’s not a “real” Nobel Prize in the sense the Nobel Foundation neither chooses nor pays the recipient(s). Technically, it’s the “Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” The award itself is of checkered provenance, created by Swedish central
Paul Volcker, the cigar smoking former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, literally and figuratively towers over his successors (he is reportedly 6’7”). Mr. Volcker is the the last Chair under whose tenure American savers could earn a decent rate of interest, the last Chair who demonstrated any meaningful political independence (clashing with
The always provocative Justin Raimondo, longtime editor of Antiwar.com , has a new column in Chronicles Magazine that asks a very simple question: Whatever happened to the libertarian movement? It’s a question worth asking, especially given the multifarious disagreements over what “libertarian” even means at this point. This may be the natural
An audio version of this article is available here. The spectacle of anti-gun marches this past weekend, at times both sinister and maudlin, provides yet another example that “democracy” does not yield some kind of livable compromise on any given issue. Instead it creates division and distrust, fed by a media environment that encourages using
The $85 billion mega-merger of AT&T with Time Warner appears headed for consummation, which will create another big digital media company with telecom underpinnings. But will this endless scramble for eyeballs and clicks, the quest to determine which platforms finicky content consumers will choose in coming years, actually create any value for
What is the Mises Institute?
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.