Mises Wire

This week, Dr. Gordon explores some devastating critiques of utilitarianism from the philosopher F. H. Bradley.

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the lies from Washington.

We are living through a historical monetary change. The first nation to adopt sound money and fiscal policies will win. The rest will lose.

Government transit in the US is going from bad to worse. Systems are breaking down and law-abiding riders face dangers of assault, robbery, and murder. The current “solution”? Spend even more money on these systems.

The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve.

Trump’s position on this reminds us of Madeleine Albright’s famous complaint: “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?”

Liberty is not a luxury good. It is necessary for civilization to thrive and the end of liberty will also be the end of civilization. Karl Popper understood that as well as anyone who has lived.

Many of the same Democratic lawmakers now condemning the shooting of survivors of the alleged drug boat strike had no problem when presidents they liked greenlit even worse strikes. But that doesn’t excuse Trump’s awful escalation in the Caribbean.

By making paper money legal tender, the government shut the door on sound money. Repealing legal tender laws is the first step back to liberty.

Modern progressive political narratives depend heavily upon the misuse of words, changing their meaning in hopes that people will forget what they originally meant. Politics corrupts our very language itself.