Big Government

European antitrust regulators have taken the worst of American antitrust "analysis," argues DT Armentano, and made it even worse.

The true state of the Union, writes DW MacKenzie, is that its chief executive fails to grasp the profound truth that central planning by political elites can never match the results of decentralized planning by the general public--even when it is done in the name of liberty.

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Atlanta, Georgia; 26-27 September 1997.

Considering the state of public education, aren't vouchers a step in the right direction? Laurence Vance says no: vouchers will make the present system worse.

Roderick Long celebrates Ayn Rand's work and influence in this piece written on the centenary of her birth.

Serious thinkers have known for centuries that society is a complex, spontaneous order, which cannot be centrally directed at gunpoint.

Deepak Lal writes as a convinced advocate of American Empire. But in the course of the book, he undermines his own reasons

Robert Murphy critiques Steven Landsburg's call to slow the spread of AIDS through a very counterintuitive call for more promiscuity.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on 20 January 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

To a person who appreciates the efforts of private philanthropists, President Bush's effort to promote charity might have rung a very sour note.