Mises Wire

Is sortition—rule by a randomly chosen group of lawmakers—better than democracy? Even when randomly chosen, policymakers can do just as much damage when in the service of the state. 

The history of Zimbabwe has been one of stolen property and missed opportunities. It is time to recognize the importance of private property rights.

Pope Leo’s recent encyclical on Artificial Intelligence makes some good points but also has weaknesses. Ulrich Fromy explains.

Despite attempts to whitewash its past, progressivism was a poisonous ideology from the beginning. One of its worst legacies is eugenics, which not only created social strife in the US, but also was exported to Germany, where the Nazis embraced it.

Not surprisingly, the present government is rapidly politicizing artificial intelligence. We don’t have to look far for disastrous results.

The covid lockdowns were useless for public health, but they vastly strengthened government’s stranglehold over our lives. We cannot allow this to happen again.

Trump is trapped in a genuinely difficult situation as he tries to reach a deal with Iran. But it is a crisis of his own making. Also, the establishment figures now condemning him should not be allowed to pretend they had nothing to do with it.

Contrary to the myth that kings routinely ruled over cowed subordinates by "divine right" in the Middle Ages, civil governments of the period faced countless institutional obstacles to the exercise of power.

The US government coverup of the origins on the covid virus that hit the world in 2020 was bad enough, but now we know that the CIA itself was involved.

The current free-for-all in Division I NCAA sports is not the product of a free market, but rather is chaos being imposed by the courts and government agencies.