Backed into a corner and facing grim economic prospects, the Russian government may conclude that its best bet is to adopt some type of gold standard. The resulting panic in the West would be interesting to watch.
Revolutionaries often place their trust in unlimited government to remake the world in their image, but unrestrained states have a habit of turning on those who support them.
Supporters of embargoes like the Cuban embargo have never made a convincing case for why taxpayers, merchants, and consumers should be forced to forego their property rights and bear the costs of the embargo’s war on free trade.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Murray Rothbard.
The Hartford Convention is known now, as much as it is remembered, as an ideological precursor to Southern secession in 1860 and 1861.
On behalf of everyone at the Mises Institute, we wish you a very happy, healthy, peaceful, and productive New Year! In this talk, Murray Rothbard reflects on the past while looking to the future of peace and free markets in our society.
Why do so many people who claim to be against big government believe everything the government says about foreign policy?
In chapter 80 of Conceived in Liberty, his history of the American Revolution, Rothbard addresses modern attempts to re-frame the American Revolution as some sort of "conservative" revolution that merely preserved a way of life, and was not a radical departure from the past.
"...the deep-seated radicalism of the American Revolution goes far beyond this. It was inextricably linked both to the radical revolutions that went before and to the ones, particularly the French, that succeeded it."
Some are now debating over whether or not the Ferguson riots are in the tradition of the Boston Tea Party. While the Tea Party itself may seem relatively innocent, the violence of the revolution itself was not nearly so innocent.
