Mises Wire

“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves.”

Today would have been Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday. Help us celebrate!

The Trump administration is trying to develop programs to domestically produce “critical” minerals that might be unavailable during trade disruptions. Of course, it is turning into yet another central planning fiasco.

Progressive historians have been able to define the terms of debates of historical events as well to ask the biased and loaded questions in the name of historical inquiry. That is no way to find the truth.

Even though freedom produces a better and wealthier society, people—and especially elites—have an aversion to it. Their fears, while rational, are also harmful to society.

With California’s government looking to pile onerous taxes on the state’s wealthiest citizens, it is time to understand that if state officials try to inflict financial harm on wealthy people, they should know that such schemes do not end well.

Hélène Landemore of Yale University believes she has a radical proposal to make democracy work. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews her book Politics without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule and concludes it isn’t radical enough.

When the Massachusetts colony issued its own unredeemable paper money in 1690, it was with the promise that it would soon be redeemable in specie. It was a lie.

We are told that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of our freedom, yet this same Bill of Rights ultimately has been used as a weapon against self-determination.

Human action involves people engaging in unique events in which outcomes often are uncertain, when expertise and planning often do not give us the results we anticipate.