Mises Wire

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon revisits Wilmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation, which takes issue with Abraham Lincoln and his views on equality.

Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later nationalist understanding backward onto the founding era.

The recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond?

The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon.

In attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct: progressivism has brought one disaster after another, all the while empowering the worst of state actors.

For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both.

Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state itself depends upon prior production for every resource it possesses.

Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for many years, and Mamdani promises to make things even worse.

The possibility that there may be offshore oil deposits in Jamaica has brought some to say that finding oil would actually be harmful to the nation’s economy and social fabric. Jamaican Lipton Matthews takes issue with that claim.

Murray Rothbard knew that egalitarianism always resulted in policy disaster. Egalitarians, he said, should be forced to justify their egalitarian demands.