Mises Wire

Jacob G. Hornberger
John Quincy Adams warned that if the US sought to run the world, "she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit."
Matthew Harwood
Andrew Bacevich is not optimistic that the American state's drive for constant war will end soon.
Chris Calton
The state provides incentives to doctors to over-prescribe opioid painkillers. An addiction crisis has followed.
When the state keeps us less safe, and falsely fosters the impression that we are safe, we become less free.
Thomas Eckert

With the horrific shooting that recently took place in Las Vegas, debates over gun control have been given center stage in our media and politics o

Ryan McMaken
"Social disorganization" — and thus higher crime rates — are often a result of interactions between different and competing cultural groups.
Gary Galles
Workers don't "free ride" on labor union services. In fact, many workers suffer harm from them.
Matteo Salonia
Economic historians should reconcile with economics as a science that is key to the analysis, categorization, and explanation of past phenomena.
Philipp Bagus Andreas Marquart
A new book explains why a world of small states would be more peaceful and more free.
Peter G. Klein
Default may be the least bad option for dealing with Puerto Rico's $73 billion debt.