1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (464+ words) According to Jaffa, the Declaration had a meaning that its authors perceived only dimly. Lincoln was able to grasp this meaning and use it to offer a program for the American nation: We now come to a complication in this…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago  (197+ words) The recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond? Original article: https: //mises. org/mises-wire/defeat-thomas-massie-where-go-here See also "Post-Massie America" (Power & Market Podcast) and "Massie Defeated in Kentucky…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago  (204+ words) 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. Original article: https: //mises. org/mises-wire/creating-nation-declaration-independence-and-nation-anachronism "Creating a Nation:…...

22+ hour, 9+ min ago  (202+ words) In contemplating the life and career of Ludwig von Mises, one is struck by the nobility and grandeur, the high courage, of his lonely and lifelong struggle on behalf of truth and laissez-faire. But what led Mises to pursue his…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (113+ words) What inspires us about the life of Mises, writes Lew Rockwell, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil. Original article: https: //mises. org/mises-daily/heart-fighter The Heart of a Fighter What inspires us about the life of Mises,…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (139+ words) 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....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (132+ words) 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. Original article: https:…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (251+ words) As I see it now, there are really two economies'two distinct systems of producing and exchanging wealth. Or rather, two systems that purport to do these things, though only one of them really produces anything, and the other is organized…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (624+ words) The destruction of New York is the logic of decades of history and long-forgotten pols addicted to outrageous spending and taxation. Today's successors of these big taxers are as myopic as the Bourbon kings who "learned nothing and forgot nothing....

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (25+ words) John Stossel asks guests, how did America make it to 250 years? Featured in the video are Ryan Mc Maken and Ron Paul. Remote video URL...