The Front Lines of the Language Wars
October 5, 2022 – Jeff Deist …… Language is at the front lines of the battle over institutions.
Cornell University Physician: I Was Wrong about Covid Vaccine Mandates
October 3, 2022 – Jon Miltimore …… Scientists and public health officials must act more humbly and recognize the limits of their knowledge, writes Dr. Paul Fenyves.
The Home Depot Employee Clash With Management Over BLM Logo Offers a Lesson on Rights and Contracts
October 1, 2022 – Walter Block …… Employers and workers should be free to make whatever voluntary arrangements are suitable to them. This is what economic freedom is all about.
History Repeats Itself: Abandoning Sound Money Leads to Tyranny and Ruin
September 29, 2022 – Jp Cortez …… The current bout of inflation is the latest disaster in a string of disasters caused by government debasement of once sound money.
Defining and Defending Freedom
September 26, 2022 – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. …… The Mises Institute has worked for more than four decades to advance one purpose: the cause of economic freedom in academia and public life. The two comments on our work that I hear most often are: (1) you guys are doing a great job, and (2) it is not working. On the first point, I can…
Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson
September 24, 2022 – Tate Fegley …… The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposes the lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.
Rethinking Climate Change: Are the Apocalyptic Models Wrong?
September 23, 2022 – Lipton Matthews …… We are regularly being told that we are in a “climate crisis.” But what if that isn’t true? What if CO2 is actually good for the greening of the planet?
Leonard Read Really Did Know Beans about Labor
September 22, 2022 – Gary Galles …… Despite the decree from the federal government that labor is not a “commodity” or an “article of commerce,” Leonard Read knew better.
Price Controls Have Failed for 4,000 Years—and Humans Still Haven’t Learned
September 21, 2022 – Jon Miltimore …… The people of ancient Eshnunna can be forgiven for not understanding why price controls are harmful. Today’s policymakers, who have the benefit of history and economics, have no excuse.
Declassify Everything!
September 19, 2022 – Jason Morgan …… Instead of worrying about which documents Donald Trump may or may not have had in his Florida home, the real issue is the proliferation of state secrets that should not be secrets at all.