Mises Wire

While economics textbooks are weak on causes of the Great Depression, American history texts are even worse. It's time for some truth telling.

The movie Wonka is unwittingly a lesson in the dangers of crony capitalism. Willy Wonka, however, beats the odds by being a Misesian entrepreneur.

While the Secret Service is best known as the guys in sunglasses protecting the president of the United States, the SS actually was created to enforce the fiat money regime during the Lincoln administration.

Despite higher rents, investment in new apartments is a losing proposition, thanks to the Federal Reserve.

The arguments of open-borders advocates may be applicable in some corners of the developed world. However, for small countries next to larger ones, open borders bring serious geopolitical consequences. 

When Carl Menger wrote his pathbreaking Principles in 1871, he challenged several schools of thought—and won. His intellectual revolution continues today.

Higher education promotes itself as the leader in equitable outcomes, but the reality is quite different, especially when it comes to women.

As the NCAA Transfer Portal and the NIL programs change the landscape of college sports, critics claim it will "ruin" athletics. Most likely, it will make sports even more competitive and energize fan bases.

Claudine Gay's unceremonious exit from the Harvard University presidency ultimately was not due to her plagiarism issues, but rather because of her disastrous appearance at a congressional hearing on Israel and Hamas.

Continuing his review of David Beito's The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights, David Gordon shows how Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration repeatedly eviscerated American constitutional rights.