What is the relationship between libertarianism and democracy? This article unveils a well-consolidated tradition of criticism of democracy within libertarian political philosophy.

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Death to Prohibition

Tags: Big Government, Health, U.S. History

01/17/2020 Mark Thornton

The repeated failure of prohibition may be just the catalyst that Austrian economics needs to gain traction with the American public.

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Working around Leviathan

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Big Government, Global Economy, U.S. History

01/16/2020 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

It's a paradox: never before has a government in human history assumed unto itself the power to regulate the minutiae of daily life as much as this one. At the same time the United States is overall the wealthiest society in the history of the world.

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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

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