Big Government

Politics and the affairs of state play ever smaller roles in the culture. 

Should the market or regulators place plants and waste sites?

The usual praise heaped on Roosevelt is undeserved. 

Conservatives, at least since the "Impeach Earl Warren" days, have viewed the Supreme Court with less than full enthusiasm. Are we too critical?

What the tobacco settlement implies about human freedom.

What the Microsoft case implies about government power.

Clinton says he knows how to end the cycle of boom and bust.

Financial instability and anti-capitalist fallacies about booms and busts. 

They said the deficit meant they could not cut taxes. What's the latest excuse?

In 1944, Ludwig von Mises published one of his least-known masterworks: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Drawing on his prewar experience in Vienna, watching the rise of the National Socialists in Germany (the Nazis), who would eventually take over his own homeland, he set out to draw parallels between the Russian and German experience with socialism.