Mises Wire

While many immigrants bring entrepreneurial skills, they often settle in US cities governed by leftists who are hostile to private enterprise.

While people claim they want the "virtuous" state with citizens to match, what we really get is realpolitik, whether we want it or not.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon revisits the argument that the American republic has grown far too big, and that a smaller America would also be a freer America.

Joshua Mawhorter reviews Dr. Shawn Ritenour’s Foundations of Economics: A Christian View.

While we speak highly of “rule of law” and the “limited state,” the unfortunate truth is that the modern state is a law unto itself. 

Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action.

To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolutionaries embraced imperialism over freedom. 

The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things are useful tools for a state that wishes to dominate its citizens.

America’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger Americans to a caste of older, wealthier generations.

If avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and his conservative followers don't offer this.