Mises Wire

Murray Rothbard asked this question and concluded that the current American regime, if the wisdom of Aquinas’ words is taken seriously, cannot wage a just war.

 There are so many parts of the Revolution, so many stages, and so many protagonists, that we are sometimes confused as to how to interpret it. Historians tend to explain the Revolution according to their predilections, or even their heroes. 

Leave it to government judges and politicians to turn constitutional protections of free speech into new ways to centralize and grow state power. 

David Gordon reviews Dan Moller's book Governing Least: A New England Libertarianism, in which the author examines the issue of a welfare state in a libertarian society.

Two guiding principles must be followed by small states and even more so by secessionist movements, whether leading to another, smaller state or a state-less territory (an anarchic social order): First, do not provoke, and second, be armed. 

Subjective valuation, which is at the heart of Austrian economic thinking, is not the same thing as someone's opinion.

Residential electricity sources are becoming yet another form of “virtue signaling.”

Join Bob Murphy, Patrick Newman, Jonathan Newman, and Murray Sabrin in Florida this November.

Oliver Anthony's popular song, "Rich Men North of Richmond," describes the parasitic world of the Beltway. One hopes people understand the damage the political classes have done.

Monetary authorities and monetary economists try to define money without understanding what money really is: a medium of exchange.