Decentralization and Secession

Repealing the 17th Amendment will not change the US Senate into a hotbed of decentralizers and free-marketers.

The federal government is using the threat of foreign hackers as an excuse to further nationalize elections in the United States.

A "well-regulated militia," controlled by the states, was once considered essential to providing a counterweight against federal power.

With the American state broke and deeply in debt, it is just a matter of time until nuclear proliferation spreads to Japan, Germany, and South Korea.

Do not put your trust in democracy, but neither should you trust in a dictatorship. Rather, put your hope into radical political decentralization.

The ballooning size of legislative districts in the US is just one more illustration of how the United States is too large.

The only way we can get along is to de-yoke from Washington.

The modern drive to centralize European government and make a European superstate threatens to destroy what made Europe great in the first place.

When used properly, and when restrained by the prevalence of a relatively laissez-faire ideology, democracy can indeed work as a brake on government power.

Those who wish to portray Ludwig von Mises as the "moderate" one, compared to the more radical Murray Rothbard, will often point out that Mises was no "anarchist". This assertion, however, runs into trouble when we consider Mises's comments in Liberalism.