The “Experts” Still Aren’t Giving Up on Vaccine Mandates
[Dr. Gilbert Berdine of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Ryan McMaken discuss the policy makers’ justifications for vaccine mandates over the past two years. Will any of these policy makers admit to any mistakes?] Ryan McMaken: The Centers
The African Slave Trade Wouldn’t Have Been Possible without African Elites
Much of modern history portrays the African slave trade as purely a European venture. But capturing and sending slaves abroad required both approval and aid from African elites. Original Article: "The African Slave Trade Wouldn't Have Been Possible without African Elites" This
Defining and Defending Freedom
The Mises Institute has worked for more than four decades to advance one purpose: the cause of economic freedom in academia and public life. The two comments on our work that I hear most often are: (1) you guys are doing
Do We Want Real Tax Cuts? How About Cutting Government Spending?
According to many economic commentators, an effective way to generate economic growth is through the lowering of taxes. The lowering of taxes, it is held, will place more money in consumers’ pockets, thereby setting in motion an economic growth. This
Money Does Matter: The End of the Gold Standard Led to a Lower Standard of Living
When the Nixon administration ended the dollar's ties to gold, it was yet another sad chapter in the US government's abuse of its currency. And the government learned nothing. Original Article: "Money Does Matter: The End of the Gold Standard Led to
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 21: Happy Days
By the start of 1948, there could no longer be any doubt: the Great Depression wasn't coming back. Instead of collapsing at war's end, as many feared it would, combined government and private spending (as measured by nominal Gross Domestic
Review: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economicsby Thomas J. DiLorenzoRegnery Publishing, 2022; xx + 242 pp. Like Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, Tom DiLorenzo is an economist with an extraordinary knowledge of history, and this shows to great advantage in his
The Decline and Fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet State
Lenin's slogan, "Marxism is Almighty Because It Is True," was displayed practically everywhere in the former Soviet Union. My first encounter with Karl Marx came in the first grade of elementary school in the city of Kazan on the banks
Trapped by Imperialist Leviathans: The Case for Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe
When the Soviet Union dominated Eastern Europe, people there looked to the West—and especially the USA—in hopes of freedom. Today, it is the West promoting culture wars and collectivism. Original Article: "Trapped by Imperialist Leviathans: The Case for Freedom in Central and
Review: Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party
Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Partyby F.H. BuckleyEncounter Books, 2022; 254 pp. Frank Buckley is always a thoughtful and provocative author, but I disagree with what he has to say in Progressive Conservatism more than with other