The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-free-enterprise
From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/families-are-key-building-alternatives-state
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebrating-birth-american-free-enterprise
Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.” Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/minarchism-worst-kind-state-idolatry
The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-intervention-not-blackrock-blame-housing-crisis
Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-i-wont-be-mourning-dick-cheney
We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/origins-welfare-state-america
Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/road-de-civilization-inflation-and-moral-erosion-society
Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s early libertarians. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/roger-williams-exemplar-americas-soul
The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/meaning-revolution
The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/food-stamps-and-federal-war-self-reliance
November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-world-war-i-triumph-progressive-intellectuals
We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/resisting-evil
The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge wealth transfers can bring medical care to low-income people—is fundamentally flawed. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dystopia-misdiagnosed-how-rich-drive-health-innovation
If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-accidental-case-against-state
While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/election-mamdani-what-it-means-and-what-it-doesnt-mean
When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/recipes-rothbard-what-chocolate-cake-can-teach-about-economics
Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/murray-rothbard-and-world-war-ii-origins
Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/all-means-elect-mamdani-and-watch-his-socialist-laboratory-work
Trump's team is citing the fentanyl crisis to justify its escalations near Venezuela. But virtually all illicit fentanyl is made and smuggled thousands of miles away. If war or regime change in Venezuela is good for the American people, why hide the true motivations? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-administration-lying-us-another-war
The food stamp program is a way for PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola company to legally rip off the taxpayers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-food-industry-lobbyists-keep-food-stamp-gravy-train-going
For more than 60 years, the US government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing that has collapsed, however, is the logic in the US policy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/brief-history-enduring-american-embargo-against-cuba
September’s fiscal surplus was not thanks to tariff revenue. In truth, it was thanks to Americans paying more in income tax. Tariffs were only 5.7 percent of revenue. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-tariffs-did-not-cause-septembers-budget-surplus
Despite the change in the White House, critical race theory is still with us, dominating the academic sectors and being ingrained in progressive culture. We need to better recognize what it is and how it works in order to better refute it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-recognize-critical-race-theory
No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians like Donald Trump did not cause the crisis. Instead, as Lawrence Mead writes, they are a symptom of the government's assault on our culture. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/recognizing-roots-current-us-political-turmoil
As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his government-subsidized competitors. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-robber-barons-james-hill-versus-crony-competitors
Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/america-hurts-farmers-and-discounts-chinas-soy-imports-while-providing-crutch-argentina
The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-planned-obsolescence
“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?" Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-rothbard-letters-show-his-early-opposition-both-nixon-and-reagan
There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-will-next-gold-bust-look
