Woodrow Wilson was an especially devoted white supremacist, even by the standard of his day. The Left is finally targeting Wilson for this, but Wilson’s legacy is far worse than even the Left will admit. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. Original Article: “ The Disastrous Legacy of
“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science. Original Article: “ The “Acid Rain” Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated
American journalists and academics have invented a fairy tale in which “free market orthodoxy” has dominated political thinking in America for the past forty years. This is not even slightly true, but pundits repeat the lie again and again. Original Article: “ We Cannot Build an Economy on Lies “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by
Think of Minneapolis and Portland and then apply that model nationwide. Then you have an idea where progressive radicals want to take us. Original Article: “ This Is What the Progressives Want To Do to Us “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Mises Senior Editor Bill Anderson to discuss his recent article, “David French Gets to Sit with the Cool Kids at the NYT Lunch Table.” Bill explains the transformation of French from a “cultural conservative” commentator to the preferred “classical liberal” of the elite.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Paul Krugman declared that the Bush administration failed in its response to the flooding of New Orleans because the administration consisted of people, according to Krugman, who didn’t “believe in government.” One cannot say that about progressives who truly believe in government, and believe in unlimited
The Free Market 16, no. 2 (February 1998) In recent months, we have been inundated with a pro-Teddy Roosevelt barrage from PBS to the Weekly Standard . He was, writes David Brooks, “a distinctly American kind that married nationalism to individualism.” His bust adorns the desks of Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole. His profile is carved into
The Free Market 16, no. 7 (July 1998) Far from having been reformed, much less abolished, welfare continues to grow. The most recent example is the attempt by the Clinton administration to convince Americans that there is a “child care crisis,” which can only be “solved” through expansion of government. The welfare state has become a deeply
ABSTRACT : In his famous 1970 paper that raised issues about “lemons” problems in markets in which asymmetric information places at least one party to an exchange (usually buyers) at a big disadvantage, George Aklerlof wrote that if dishonesty continues, a “Gresham’s Law” situation can arise in which the bad products will drive good products out
Volume 2, No. 4 (Winter 1999) Couch and Shughart’s book brings together a number of public-choice studies by other authors which have appeared in various journals, but have never been formally connected to each other in a single book. The authors also perform their own statistical tests, using data discovered by Leonard Arrington in 1969
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