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Milei’s Political Game

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

“I’m the one who destroys the state from within.” “The state is a criminal organization.” “Taxation is theft.” “The state does everything wrong.” These are just a few of the many anti-statist (or anarcho-capitalist) lines uttered by Javier Milei, who—after breaking the barriers of respectable political discourse and becoming a congressman in 2021—won the presidency of Argentina in 2023.And while statism continues to advance or is protected when...

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Smashing the Western Illusion of Democracy

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Rebellious Old Right

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Stewards of History Desperately Need Mises

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Can the State be Justified?

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Bolognese Jurists behind the Proto-Austrians of the Salamanca School

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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“Paper or Plastic?” How One Market Intervention Requires Another to “Correct” the Original One

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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It’s Always Been Hamiltonian Statecraft

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Battle of the Confederate Monuments

2024-09-24

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2024-09-24

Various justifications have been advanced by those removing or destroying Confederate monuments to explain why they deem it necessary to dismantle the Confederate heritage. For example, the memorial to Zebulon Vance in Asheville, North Carolina was demolished on grounds that it was “a painful symbol of racism.” In the tumult surrounding the Black Lives Matter riots, “168 Confederate symbols were removed across the United States.” In 2020 the...

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Past Tense—The Homeless Problem in Star Trek DS9

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

The third Star Trek series—Deep Space 9—is set on a distant space station-city. The producers had to be creative with the scripts because they are not visiting “strange, new worlds” all the time. In season 3, episodes 11 and 12, titled “Past Tense” they dealt with—thirty years ago in the mid-1990s, mind you—with the US homeless problem of their distant past, set in our future of late August of the year 2024.

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Israel’s Waging Genocide, Not War

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

If it is portrayed as a war crime; genocide—the methodical, malicious murder of the many—can be dismissed as incidental to battle; a mere case of, “Oops, bad things happen in war.” You hear the last phrase all the time from Israel’s supporters, as they gush their enthusiasm for the state’s crimes.

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Henri Bergson: The Philosopher of Life and Creative Evolution

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was a towering figure in the intellectual world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Paris in 1859, Bergson became one of the most celebrated philosophers of his time, known for his innovative ideas on time, consciousness, and the nature of life itself.

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Bringing the Truth

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

Who are they? People just like you. People who happen to care deeply about human liberty and human flourishing. People who care about real economics. People who oppose state power, central banks, and war. People who care about truth and honest history.They come from all walks of life. Some give $20, some give more. But they are all people like you, people who understand the threat statism poses to our world.The Mises Institute is not funded by...

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Donate $5, Get Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State book!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The Mises Institute champions sound economics, individual freedom, and peace. It does so through the promotion, distribution, and extension of the monumental work of economists Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Henry Hazlitt, and other advocates of the free market.Likewise, because of these commitments, the Mises Institute promotes industrious production, peaceful social cooperation, and voluntary exchange.The Mises Institute is proud to...

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Three Cheers for Mises

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

My Gift is Doubled Today. I Want to Donate!The intellectual achievements of Ludwig von Mises make him one of the greatest minds in human history. His contributions to Austrian economics inspired new generations of scholars, from Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek to current leaders like Joe Salerno, Ron Paul, Patrick Newman, and Tom Woods. He is the most powerful intellectual opponent to socialism the world has ever known, and his work on money and...

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Double Your Gift

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

My Gift is Doubled Today. I Want to Donate!The Mises Institute sends a big THANK YOU to everyone who already donated to our Fall Campaign this week. Your support helps us continue to make the sound economic principles of Mises, Rothbard, Hazlitt, and Hayek free to the world at a time when they are needed more than ever.If you haven’t had time to donate, please do so today. Hunter Lewis, a generous donor and author of numerous books, is passionate...

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Our Fall Campaign Starts Today!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The mission of the Mises Institute is simple. We want to spread the ideas of Ludwig von Mises and the scholars he inspired. Ideas that are vital for a free and prosperous civilization.We do this through our student programs, our popular articles, our podcasts, our vast library of free downloadable books, and our animated videos for beginners.

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Our Fall Campaign Week is Under Way!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The mission of the Mises Institute is simple. We want to spread the ideas of Ludwig von Mises and the scholars he inspired. Ideas that are vital for a free and prosperous civilization.We do this through our student programs, our popular articles, our podcasts, our vast library of free downloadable books, and our animated videos for beginners.

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Has “Neo-Liberalism” Failed in the United States?

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. 

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Policing the Narrative

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

The Deep State has struck again. The Biden Administration’s intrepid Department of Justice (DOJ), ever-vigilant in its quest for Russian bogeymen, has proudly announced the seizure of 32 internet domains. Their purported crime? Daring to challenge the regime’s approved narratives.According to the allegations, Russian entities such as Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology, and ANO Dialog operated these domains under the guidance...

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