Legal System
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Natural Law vs. Tyranny
Judge Napolitano lays out the difference between Natural Law and Legislative Law.
How Governments Can Manipulate Murder Rates by Excluding “Terrorist” Killings
Days after the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, President Obama had the chutzpah to stand up in Paris of all places and declare that mass shootings don't occur "in other countries."
With Mass Shootings, the State Makes Us Less Safe
President Obama has claimed that mass shootings do not occur in other countries. But, the data is clear that they do happen other places, and in places with stringent gun control laws. Worldwide, the state fails to keep its citizens safe.
The Week in Review: November 14, 2015
This week, the dangers of the authoritarian PC culture was driven to the forefront of the national conversation by students at Mizzou. Fortunately, Mises Scholars launched a pre-emptive strike against PC and the degenerating university system at last weekend's Mises Circle in Phoenix.
New York State Bans Fantasy Football
New York State Attorney General says that fantasy football is just as bad for you as the State Lottery. The lottery is actually much worse!
When You’re Popular, You Don’t Need Freedom of Speech
When you're unpopular, free speech sounds pretty great. But once you control the reins of power, free speech is really just an inconvenience, as the recent rise of the American left with its speech codes and trigger warnings has shown us.
The Mises Week in Review: October 17, 2015
It was a big week for Bernie Sanders's brand of socialism, and millions of Americans already agree with him. Thanks to unquestioning acceptance of wild claims about the success of socialism in Europe, many Americans are now wishing for some European-style socialism themselves.
Sanders and His Followers Are Not Outliers
Because conservatives are only nominally less statist than today’s progressives, socialist policies that would have sounded outrageous to many Americans 100 years ago are now the baseline for the modern American political mind. Bernie Sanders is capitalizing on this reality.