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Paul Cantor on Shakespeare, the Romans, and Austrian Economics

Blog03/03/2018Paul A. CantorAllen Mendenhall

For Shakespeare, the story of the Roman Republic is a tragedy. Like one of its heroes, the Republic was eventually destroyed by its own success.

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Panel: Survive and Thrive Financially

Financial MarketsMoney and BanksStrategy

03/02/2017Audio/VideoChristopher P. CaseyAlbert K. LuNomi Prins

How can liberty-minded Americans move toward more freedom in our lifetime? Watch this panel discussion from our recent event in San Diego.

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Pope Francis Contradicts Himself on Religious Liberty and Capitalism

Media and CultureWorld HistoryPrivate Property

11/12/2015Mises WireRoy Cordato

When the Soviet Union wanted to take away the rights of Catholics to worship, it confiscated their churches. The Soviets knew that the right to own property is intimately connected to a right of religious freedom. Pope Francis appears to not understand this.

My Path to the Austrian School of Economics

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

There is no more stopping the Mises School. And when the truth finally wins out, because only what is true can also work smoothly in the long run, then the hour of the Austrian School of Economics will have come.

We Don't Need Sunday "Blue Laws"

Ryan McMaken

Advocates for "blue laws" want to impose more laws on shopkeepers. These moral crusaders should instead start by setting a good example, and stop watching football games, ordering pizzas, or filling up on gas on Sunday.

The Benefits of Free Trade Are Canceled Out by Domestic Interventionism

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Trade agreements have thus become obsolete tokens of negotiation in larger geopolitical disputes, protectionist tools for managing and interfering with global trade flows.

How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession

Ryan McMaken

So long as we insist the federal government can force one law, one culture, and one sort of politics on all of America, the US is headed down the road of civil war. Only decentralization and separation can partly defuse the situation.

The Communism of Broadway and Hollywood

Ludwig von Mises

It is noteworthy to remember that no other American milieu was more enthusiastic in the endorsement of communism than that of Hollywood.

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