Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate ...

By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it ...

During the Cold War, pro-assassination forces gained ground, but the illegal killing was hidden because it was inconsistent with the shining-city-on-the-hill ...

In my first column after the events of Jan. 6th, 2021, I criticized those who called the protest a “coup,” pointing out that, “Some of the same politicians and ...

In the West, the "tax states"  we now live under are relatively modern institutions, and they developed from earlier non-state civil governments that were ...

According to mainstream economists, inflation aids economic growth while deflation impairs growth. Austrian economists, ...

Rothbard wondered whether conservatives wished to conserve the status quo, adhere to the outlook of European rightists of the ...

Ludwig von Mises was born 144 years ago today. His economic masterpieces are as relevant and powerful today as when they were ...

Individual voters have little reason to become informed. Politicians have strong incentives to pander rather than persuade.

Hermann Hoppe's Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung (Opladen 1983). Translated by Andreas Tank.

One of the objections against anarcho-capitalism is that without government supervision, businesses will form cartels. However, free markets have their own ways ...

Perhaps most importantly, however, fiat-money-backed stablecoins carry significant “autonomous inflationary potential.” The ...