Mises Wire

James Bovard

As decades pass since the fall of the USSR, romanticism is replacing the bitter facts of the lives people in communist regimes were forced to live

José Niño

The Gilded Age's enormous gains in incomes and standards of living showed what individuals were capable of creating when the government was shackled.

Allen Mendenhall

The term "cultural Marxism" has been in circulation for over forty years and describes an indentifiable intellectual movement.

Claudio Grass

Hayek was right when he said if we want to maintain a free society, we have to take the money monopoly away from the government. 

Robert P. Murphy

A “Green New Deal” makes no sense on economic grounds, either in spirit or in letter.

Chris Calton

The US government once destroyed an entire industry because an anti-drug bureaucrat was too ignorant to understand the difference between hemp and marijuana.

David Gordon

Today is the 24th anniversary of Murray Rothbard's death. Rothbard had a consistent vision of the good society throughout his long career.

Ryan McMaken

Neoliberalism is a not a free-market or libertarian ideology. It's really just a throwback to the mercantilism of old, in which government-sponsored monopolies push their agendas on everyone else.

Nathan Keeble

Why can't the federal government just leave online gambling alone?

Murray N. Rothbard

An autobiographical essay from a young Murray Rothbard offers insight into how his formative years shaped his later work.