Jeff Deist: The Role of the Mises Institute
Here's a hint: it's not politics, it's not public policy, and it's not lobbying.
Here's a hint: it's not politics, it's not public policy, and it's not lobbying.
Even in the face of a century of collectivist horrors, Republicans still can not win the essential "us vs. them" game.
Many criticisms directed against socialism are weak sauce compared to the penetrating and rigorous arguments developed by Ludwig von Mises.
In free-market circles, most government intervention is dismissed as "socialist," with the result that the term has lost its true meaning.
Jeff Deist discusses libertarian strategy with Adam Camac and Daniel Laguros.
John Stuart Mill and Ludwig von Mises realized that democracy can only work if the voters pay more into the system than they take out of it.
Judge Napolitano presents a dynamite talk on the real meaning of the 1st Amendment.
If Brazil truly is "the country of the future," it will be due to it embracing the ideas of Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard.
Maybe the best thing we can do then is to let ourselves be guided by Bastiat's saying: "The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended."