Mises Wire

Jeff Deist

What is the best way to fight the leviathan state? Is it through politics, culture, or secession? There are benefits to each approach, but the way to success lies with decentralization and in building a strong society as an alternative to the state.

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Interested in learning Austrian economics, but don't know where to start?

Jonathan Newman

If you are a graduate student with a research project in Austrian economics or libertarian political philosophy, consider applying for the Mises Institute's Summer Fellows program.

Andrew Syrios

When you're unpopular, free speech sounds pretty great. But once you control the reins of power, free speech is really just an inconvenience, as the recent rise of the American left with its speech codes and trigger warnings has shown us.

Hunter Lewis

What The New GOP Should Look Like.

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Live broadcast of Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, William Boyes, and Charles Goyette in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mises Institute

There were many state and local elections in the US this week, but few of them will result in anything that will combat widely held and popular errors about central banking, drug prohibition, and the global environment.

Ryan McMaken

The OECD released new life expectancy data this week. The agency then blamed the US's slightly lower numbers on not enough government spending on health care. This rather oversimplifies the matter, to say the least.

David Adams

Farmers have been using monkeys to harvest coconuts in Thailand for hundreds of years. But now, animal rights activists have decided that these farmers should have their livelihoods destroyed in order to save the monkeys from "slavery".

David Gordon

Samuel Moyn, a distinguished intellectual historian, argues that both Catholics and Protestants began in the 1930s to defend human rights and dignity, giving these ideas a conservative interpretation.