Mises Wire

Richard McDaniel interviews Paul Gottfried, getting his perspective on wokeness and other shenanigans and hijinks that are coming from modern American higher education.

“Political globalism” bears the unmistakable signature of an oligarchized democracy.  No matter how we vote, a small elite manages to get its way on its central issues. 

The modern western society is built upon the welfare state, yet it is that very welfare state that is undermining the social fabric. It is time to recognize the damage the welfare state is doing and put a stop to it.

This week, Dr. Gordon explores some of the thought of Thomas Nagel on reason and how subjectivists who deny objective reason are inviting us not to believe them through their arguments.

Instead of market competition, inflation forces young and old into rivalrous competition for housing.

Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism is a welcome addition to a field long starved for alternatives to Marxist approaches. 

American journalists and academics have invented a fairy tale in which “free market orthodoxy” has dominated political thinking in America for the past forty years. This is not even slightly true, but pundits repeat the lie again and again.

This downward movement in CPI growth—which remains positive and well above the Fed's two-percent target—reflects, in part, falling rents and oil prices due to soft demand. 

National Review’s purging of the John Birch Society was done because the Birchers began to turn against the Vietnam War.

The US economy is hooked on easy money and artificially low interest rates. Huge credit expansions are not “stimulating” the economy; they are destroying it.