The Heritage Foundation offers one of those site polls designed to keep you tooling around, and this one I thought was interesting. Do liberals exaggerate threat to civil liberties from security measures like the Terrorist Surveillance Program? Yes. Security programs like the TSP protect the nation and keep civil liberties intact. No. The TSP and
In Washington, words such as “cost,” “tax,” “subsidy,” “spending,” and other fiscal terms have no fixed meaning. For example, it is considered costly to cut taxes, and a subsidy to provide a tax break. This morning, we read that Bush wants to provide a tax break to low income people who buy private coverage, while taxing people “for some workers
Odds are that you have never heard of this book, much less own it, for it is exceedingly rare and I’ve hardly ever seen a mention of it, though it is just brilliant. It is The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue , by Henry Hazlitt. It is now available for free download or in print on demand . (And it was a big sacrifice to give up my personal copy
The first thing to say about The Menace of the Herd (1943), now available in PDF and in Print on Demand , is that it is no longer $500 as it is on Amazon. Second, it is not by “Francis Stuart Campbell” but rather Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Third, the author has to be one of the most impossible men of the 20th century: impossible in the
George Will writes a commentary on the prospect of a presidential bid by Ron Paul, and here is a commentary on Will that attacks Will’s insinuation that Paul is a eccentric out of touch with the glorious modern world of the Leviathan state. Will has always been a big-government man — Straussian links of some sort — but, more importantly, he is
Wii is wrecking children’s lives ! And before that, it was video games, and before that TV, and before that radio, then movies, then cars, and if you go back far enough you can find Victorians railing against the outrage that kids were wasting all their time reading that new innovation, mass-produced
What can I say to persuade you to click on this link and have a look? This has to be the finest book from one of the great American thinkers and writers of the 20th century, a man who has been tragically neglected and forgotten: Frank Chodorov. Every essay in this book, called Out of Step , which is also available in print , is a gem, from its
Many churches during the season of Lent hold a “hunger banquet” to illustrate the problem of poverty in the developing world. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but does guilt manipulation really solve the problem or does it cause people to grasp for straws or actually favor dangerous policies? Here is the way the banquet works. Everyone pays one
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.