Interviews

In the interview that follows, Kiriakou reflects on his fifteen years at the CIA and the profound shift that took place after 9/11.

Patrick Newman is an assistant teaching professor of economics at the University of Tampa and the Murray N. Rothbard Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is the author of several books, the most recent is Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929 (2026). 

My objective is to take the socialist calculation problem and apply it to environmental economics. Environmental regulation is really a variety of government planning and is a poor foundation for policy.

In contrast to the pessimistic political atmosphere, our message in Oklahoma City was hopeful. Entrepreneurs are building alternatives, undermining institutionalized corruption, and tangibly improving people’s lives. Politicians may promise prosperity, but it’s entrepreneurs who create it.

I think any study of history or even the present ought to rely on the belief in contingency, that human action is what drives history, not broad deterministic sweeps of things that human beings are not in control of.

In this issue of The Misesian, Patrick Newman explores the many ways that Rothbard remains relevant to current economic and political controversies. And other articles, all of which are in the Rothbardian tradition of advancing the scholarship of freedom and sound economics.

Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not collectivism.

Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not collectivism.

In this issue of The Misesian we look at how the inflationist economy affects Gen Z and we look at what can be done to reclaim an economy based on saving, investing, and looking to the future.

This issue of The Misesian discusses that, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.