Mises Wire

Private entrepreneurs have solved many environmental problems by finding ways to turn garbage into something people were willing to pay for.

There were three important victories related to cannabis, i.e., marijuana, legalization and only the most radical measure failed.

Bad ideas can spread more quickly than good ones, often because they sound so good until you spend some time thinking about them.

In a way, the separation of the Czechs and Slovaks was like Brexit and the UK’s 1980s privatizations combined, only a lot more complicated.

It's true that JFK would feel at home in the modern GOP. But that's because the GOP has stopped even pretending to want significant cuts to government spending.

Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.

Gustavus Swift liberated people from a diet of salt pork by figuring out how to ship refrigerated beef.

Clearly, the proposal for increased usage of E15 is a government subsidy to corn growers and the ethanol industry.

The state is not "us." Even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.

Steven Pinker’s attempt to rescue the Whig theory of history and demonstrate that we live in the best of all worlds turns out to be an utter failure.