Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Kalshi Culture: How Gambling, Speculation, and Degeneracy Went Mainstream
As government continues to engage in reckless actions from inflation to starting wars, people develop shorter time horizons, creating social vacuums. Increased gambling and other irresponsible behaviors then fill the void.
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In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests
A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims.
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The Misesian, vol. 2, no. 6, 2025
This issue of The Misesian discusses that, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.
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The Constitution as a Weak Reed
In theory, the Constitution should safeguard individual liberty by giving citizens a bulwark against state tyranny. However, the Constitution actually advanced federal government power or failed to ultimately prevent it.
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The Rise of the State and the Fall of Natural Law
In the wake of WWI, Pope Pius XI reminded his readers that governments instituted by men can never be perfect, and they cannot even be good if they neglect natural law.
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Kalshi Culture: How Gambling, Speculation, and Degeneracy Went Mainstream
As government continues to engage in reckless actions from inflation to starting wars, people develop shorter time horizons, creating social vacuums. Increased gambling and other irresponsible behaviors then fill the void.
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The Rise of the State and the Fall of Natural Law
In the wake of WWI, Pope Pius XI reminded his readers that governments instituted by men can never be perfect, and they cannot even be good if they neglect natural law.
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Bari Weiss and the Myth of the Political Center
Now at the helm of CBS News, Bari Weiss has become the most prominent figure pushing the idea that America is held hostage by two political “extremes” that have sidelined a large, unified, moderate, and pragmatic political center. That is the opposite of the truth.
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Drug War: Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty
President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III.
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The US Government Is Not the Daddy of US Oil Companies
Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago.
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The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance
Wired: "2026 will be the year when US dollar dilution—the quiet erosion of its global dominance as countries trade and pay in alternatives—starts to build momentum."
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“Free” Health Care Will Not Fix America’s Medical Crisis
Socialists and progressives demand that the US adopt a “single payer” healthcare system in which the government provides “free” healthcare. However, “free” healthcare is not free at all, as medical care consists of scarce goods which always come as a cost to someone.
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Trump Says He’ll Support an Israeli Attack on Iran If Tehran ‘Continues’ Its Missile Program
Trump and Netanyahu held a joint press conference where the US president again expressed support for the idea of another attack on Iran, though he suggested it wasn’t “confirmed” that Tehran was “building up” again.
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House Passes Bill To Delist Wolves From Endangered List
In a provision that has drawn widespread opposition from conservation groups, the bill also declares that "reissuance of the final rule under Section 2 shall not be subject to judicial review.”
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“Free” Health Care Will Not Fix America’s Medical Crisis
Socialists and progressives demand that the US adopt a “single payer” healthcare system in which the government provides “free” healthcare. However, “free” healthcare is not free at all, as medical care consists of scarce goods which always come as a cost to someone.
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The Fed, Gold, and Crypto: Freedom and Competing Currencies
To stay in power, governments have to keep spending money. They need to give money to their friends, to give money to their supporters, to carry out their various projects, and—most expensive of all—to have wars.
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Economic Freedom as a Tonic for Social Conflict
Conflicts are not inherent in the operation of an unhampered market economy. There are conflicts between citizens because the government steps in and gives special privileges to some and not to others.
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Easterly of Eden
Easterly questions if economic development is really development unless all parties have the right and opportunity to consent voluntarily in their own decisions
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From the Editor—November/December 2025
In this issue of The Misesian, we explore the choice we face between the civilizing and liberating effects of private property and the impoverishment of interventionism and socialism. Our Supporters Summit spoke to how economic freedom undergirds civilization itself.
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