Rothbard: The Free-Market and Antigovernment Roots of the American Revolution
Being libertarians, the revolutionaries saw no conflict between moral and political rights on the one hand and economic freedom on the other.
Mises Wire
Why Regimes Want to Rule Over Big States with More Land and More People
All else being equal, a physically large country provides regimes with more opportunities to wage more war, collect more taxes, and control more people.
How Should We Regulate the Sun (Since Our Government Regulates Nearly Everything Else)?
Do we have a right to sunlight? How do we assert those rights? Murray Rothbard provides some answers.
Why the Official Data Shows There’s No Recession
As government weight in the economy rises faster, technical recessions may not appear in the official data, but citizens suffer it, nevertheless.
Unraveling the Fallacy of Natural Monopolies
The presence of a "natural monopoly" is supposed to be a sufficient reason for government to intervene in the economy. But what if there truly is no such thing as a "natural monopoly"?
The Affirmative-Action Ruling Strengthens Vast Federal “Anti-Discrimination” Powers
The conservative judges chose to perpetuate the court's well-established and disastrous use of the Equal Protection Clause. The justices were careful to protect and strengthen federal power.
Declaring Independence from the Parasite Caste
As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July, they would do well to remember that those who fought for independence would not support the Leviathan state that the USA has become.
Help Make MU 2023 the Best Ever
Help another group of students discover what you have always known: that freedom makes the great and good possible.
The Problem with Belloc’s Distributist Economy
The "distributist" theorists Chesterton and Belloc imagined that economic interventionism could make life easier and more free. Yet their proposed system is neither moral nor practical.
Will Jamaica Embrace True Economic Reform or Just More Socialism?
Jamaica is on the road to becoming a republic, but will that lead to economic freedom or to the statism that has held back that country since independence from Great Britain?
