Threats to freedom of speech and efforts to suppress dissenting views and voices have been on the rise over the past decades. They were exponentially intensified since the ascent of social media, and as the political polarization in the West truly took hold of our societies, the powers that be have been using any and all tools at their disposal to
In today’s world, dominated as it is by the ephemeral, the superficial, and the inconsequential, it can be hard for a rational, dispassionate observer to make sense of what is going on—politically, socially, economically, and philosophically. It is that last aspect that gets the least “oxygen” in mainstream media, in public education, and in
Las amenazas a la libertad de expresión y los esfuerzos por suprimir las opiniones y voces discrepantes han ido en aumento en las últimas décadas. Se intensificaron exponencialmente desde el ascenso de las redes sociales, y a medida que la polarización política en Occidente se apoderaba realmente de nuestras sociedades, los poderes fácticos han
En el mundo actual, dominado por lo efímero, lo superficial y lo intrascendente, puede ser difícil para un observador racional y desapasionado dar sentido a lo que está sucediendo —política, social, económica y filosóficamente. Es este último aspecto el que recibe menos «oxígeno» en los medios de comunicación, en la educación pública y en casi
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.