Mises Wire

Henry Lever

Thanks to massive economic intervention by South Africa’s government, both crime and poverty are soaring as the society slowly implodes. Police protection is almost nonexistent, so many South Africans are turning toward private security as an alternative.

Joshua Mawhorter

While the American people may have been ignorant of the foreign policy history of the 1990s to their detriment, and politicians—whether sincere or not—expressed bewilderment, many understood the direct link between foreign policy interventionism and terrorist attacks.

Ryan McMaken

What really concerns the Fed is ensuring rising asset prices for Wall Street while pushing cheap credit to finance federal deficits.

David Brady, Jr.

H.W. Brands offers a refreshing detour from the usual smears lobbed at Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee.

William L. Anderson

The recent murder of a young woman on the Charlotte, North Carolina light rail highlights the casual attitudes that progressives in government have toward violent crime. This will not change any time soon.

Roman Kireev

Privatization is often explained as something the state permits. However, true privatization rejects state coercion in all things, including money.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The key point to bear in mind in the whole tariff controversy is that trade is voluntary. People aren’t forced to trade but will do so only if they expect to benefit from the trade.

Connor O'Keeffe

As politics come to dominate more of our lives and young generations grow righteously disillusioned with a system designed to rip them off, we’re likely to see more violence and chaos. It’s a bad path we’re on. But there is a better one.

Roberta A. Modugno

In “The Making of the State,” Prof. Modugno shows that even as the state was coming into being, historians and scholars understood that it was something new and different and that the state is central to what we now call “modernity,” which is defined by the overwhelming power of states.

George Ford Smith

Thomas Paine, perhaps more than the nation’s official “Founding Fathers,” understood that government will deteriorate into tyranny unless those it governs are vigilant to keep that from happening.