Mises Wire

Critics of free markets claim that the 1980s and 90s were near-pure laissez-faire when, in reality, the regulatory state only got stronger. 

Elite higher education in the US often seems to be a caricature of itself. As David Gordon shows, Yale University‘s Jason Stanley has redefined fascism to include the nuclear family and reading the Classics. 

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as soldiers in the Confederate army. While the numbers of black Confederate soldiers didn‘t match their northern counterparts, many of them did serve as armed combatants.

Economist Bryan Caplan has held up the United Arab Emirates as an example of how open borders can be successful. Caplan clearly does not understand how immigration works in the UAE.

Ryan and Tho examine the role that ideology and interest groups will have on Trump's administration and on his political appointees. 

This might sound radical or extreme, but the US somehow managed to get along for more than 225 years before this department was created.

Elections can have important impacts on the economy, but the most important ones are preceded by some kind of revolution in the world of ideas, for good or bad. 

In Misesian thinking, only negative outcomes can ever result from dependence on government transfers.

Totalitarianism is not compatible with a functioning economic system based upon free exchange and private property. Such regimes depend upon historicism and logical relativism.

Since 1956, few presidential candidates have managed to get more than 51 percent of the vote in national elections.