Mises Wire

In this episode, Ryan McMaken takes a look at how the domestic and commercial rituals of the Thanksgiving holiday are things that communists really don‘t like. 

In 1923 Lenin released a propaganda pamphlet titled Down with the Private Kitchen. It explained how private dinners with one's family are reactionary, bourgeois, and generally something requiring total destruction. 

It is unlikely many of the Department of Government Efficiency's recommendations will ever be implemented. The value of the DOGE lies in how it exposes government waste. 

As we see from Jamaica‘s experience, attempts by the government to be entrepreneurial misallocate resources, waste money, and achieve poor results.

The court intellectuals who want conflict with China pose a grave threat to America. 

The great free-market classical liberal William Leggett believed that Americans do not need politicians telling us on which days Americans ought to be thankful.

Trump is apparently oblivious to the societal train wrecks that protectionist tariffs have caused throughout American history.

Rent control always results in housing shortages and deteriorating housing stock. Governments and activists, unfortunately, never learn any lessons.

Even though the Supreme Court supposedly banned affirmative action for college admissions, federal law still requires certain outcomes with regards to race, sex, and other characteristics. Federal authorities still want affirmative action to be brought in the back door.

Thanks to unrelenting propaganda from the establishment media, a large number of Americans are suffering from what is diagnosed as “climate anxiety.”