Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

One Good Thing Can Come From US Intervention in Greenland: The End of NATO

If the US annexes Greenland, NATO will have failed in one of its core purposes: to maintain the territorial status quo while outsourcing Europe's defense spending to the US taxpayer.

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Trump Rules Out Elections in Venezuela, Anticipates Sending Troops to Occupy Venezuela

Trump has declared elections to be out of the question, and instead says he expects to send troops to occupy Venezuela.

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The Aristotelian-Thomistic Roots of Austrian School

The Austrian School of economics isn’t a 20th century or even 19th century creation. Instead, Austrian economics is rooted in the logical thought, as developed by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.

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Time Stolen by the State: Why Infrastructure Fails under Chronic Interventionism

Infrastructure can be built under freedom because freedom disciplines action. Under coercion, it becomes theater.

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Calhoun’s Doctrine of the Concurrent Majority

Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which served to limit the powers of government.

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Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back!

The operation is launched and the “objectives” are quickly reached. Or so they claim. But then it all falls apart. We become poorer as the special interests get richer.

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Liberating the American University

Dr. Peter Klein explains why truly “liberating the American university” means cutting all state ownership, funding, and regulation—not just tweaking DEI programs or research grants—and letting genuinely private institutions compete to provide higher education.

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Constitutions and Chaos

The Ken Burns theme that the creation of the U.S. Constitution saved this country from “chaos” exaggerates the difficulties the new nation faced under the Articles of Confederation and fails to comprehend where the Articles were successful.

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Three Key Lessons from the US’s Venezuela Intervention

The US's bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the "rule of law" doesn't matter.

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The Venezuelan War is a Racket

Donald Trump’s war against Venezuela is truly a racket, as it looks to be little more than an attempt to loot the nation of Venezuela’s natural resources in the name of “liberation.”

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The Real Reasons the US Bombed Venezuela

The US seeks another puppet regime in South America, and all this talk about democracy, human rights, and noble causes is just cover for the exercise of raw power. But that doesn't stop Trump supporters from pretending it's all about freedom.

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Amid stubborn inflation, Bank of Japan raises benchmark rates to highest in 30 years

Japan's 10-year bond yield is now the highest its been since the 1990s. Inflation has run above above the BOJ’s 2% target for 44 straight months.

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Tel Aviv moves to extend ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza

Israel barred foreign journalists from reporting in Gaza after the start of the war in 2023. BTW, Israelis now openly call for censorship in the United States also.

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Brady: The New Neoconservatives

Bari Weiss gate-keeps the right against antiwar conservatives. Sound familiar?

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Right and Left: What Do They Really Mean?

Long before Soviet propaganda cynically rebranded the Nazis as “bourgeois,” and long before modern academics lazily stamped them “far-right,” Mises dismantled National Socialism with clinical precision.

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Trump’s Venezuelan Crony Capitalism

Trump justifies his war on Venezuela by saying that “they” stole “our” oil. Unpacking this claim gives us insight into Trump’s version of crony capitalism.

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Trump’s National Insecurity Strategy

President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal policies are making this country less secure.

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The Statism of Donald Trump

From war to tariffs to inflation, it is clear Donald Trump is a devoted disciple of the ideology of statism and interventionism. The fact he's better than the atrocious Kamala Harris doesn't change this.

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Calhoun’s Doctrine of the Concurrent Majority

Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which served to limit the powers of government.

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Socialist Mamdani Inadvertently Pays Tribute to Capitalism

Zohran Mamdani held his mayoral swearing in ceremony at the now-abandoned City Hall Station that was a feature of the first New York Subway built in 1904. Unfortunately, city officials deliberately drove the subway company into insolvency and then took over.

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