On August 21st, 2018, a jury found Paul Manafort guilty of eight counts of tax and bank fraud. To summarize the convictions, Manafort managed to pay less in taxes by declining to disclose the existence of various bank accounts that he holds to the federal government. Manafort could die in a jail cell for tax evasion. No one should be cheering for
As Hurricane Florence prepares to ravage the Southeastern United States, social media warriors, and “news” outlets are exclaiming their outrage at the business owners who are raising prices on essential items such as water, food, gasoline, plywood, and even hotel rooms. This “price gouging,” however, is absolutely essential, for people’s lives are
Socialists are jumping for joy due to the fact that a Mercatus Center study supposedly concluded that “Medicare for All” would save the nation $2 trillion over the span of ten years. This twist of the official report stems from Jacobin Magazine, an openly socialist publication when they claimed that Medicare for All will ultimately save money for
On January 8th, 2018, former Google employee James Damore filed a discrimination lawsuit against the tech giant . Damore made national headlines last year after he released the Google Memo . In the memo, Damore alleged that Google has shunned ideas that disrupt their leftist narrative. Google fired Damore for drafting this now infamous memo. The
When I was eight years old, I received The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Tom Woods as a Christmas gift. Like most books, it sat on my shelf for years before I would actually read it. I grew up in a moderate Republican household in a moderate Republican area, so my schools weren’t challenging any of my pre-conceived notions of
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.
