RatesRise, Lines Lengthen at the ol’ PO
I don’t mean to pick on the US Postal Service, but I must admit to a strong (but not yet clinical) obsession with monopolies — especially tho
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The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
The libertarian creed, writes Murray Rothbard, emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world.
Every Breath You Take, Every Call You Make
USA Today has broken the story that, with the cooperation of AT&T, V
How Prosperity Generates Poverty
In a peculiar way, writes Paul Trescott, the underclass are subsidized by our prosperous society.
Federal pandemic plan: wear masks, stay home, keep your distance
Fox News is reporting on the White House’s plan to keep us save from a flu o
Where Would General Motors Be Without the United Automobile Workers Union?
Writes George Reisman: What the UAW has done, on the foundation of coercive, interventionist labor legislation, is bring a once-great company to its knees.
Society in Jail
Writes Jeffrey Tucker: even that law which appears to be a mere guideline and a help--such as a stop sign--must ultimately be enforced by jails and violence.
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles Murray
Charles Murray, by his own account, should not have written In Our Hands. He identifies a genuine problem; but he himself shows that his plan to solve it is either useless or inferior to a better plan.
Five Ways Government Grows, and What the Mises Institute is Doing About It
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, 4 March 2006.
Neither Samaritan Nor Solomon
Lew Rockwell identifies the main lies of government: the State is a good Samaritan, is as wise as Solomon, practices the art of compromise, creates wealth, and educates us all in proper social values.
