Mises Wire
The privatization of holidays
The struggle over holidays oddly mirrors the intractable struggle between market and state, so that we have Labor Day, Presidents Day, and Memorial
Greenspan: The Liar, The Fraud
Alan Greenspan is in the news a lot currently because of the release of his new book. I haven’t read the book.
None Dare Call It Genocide
How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq.
Stick It in Your Earmark
President Bush has just signed the long-debated ethics bill, which Democrats are trumpeting as helping “drain the swamp” of corruption,
More money makes us rich
It was this very day that I was telling some visiting students about the silliness of the old populist silver movement of the late 19th century, ho
The Constitutional Democrat
James Fenimore Cooper, America’s first great national novelist, widely influenced our literature and Americans’ sense of history in the