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Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter. Original Article: "Love, Fear, and the Law of Good Intentions" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

The scientific method requires free and open dissent from any scientific hypothesis. Yet JAMA is requesting that medical boards become a new Inquisition to root out heresy and apostasy from CDC doctrines. Original Article: "Real Scientific Inquiry Requires Dissent. But That's

“Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because sooner or later, one will.”—Warren Buffet The curious thing about democracy is that somehow the worst get on top. Despite all the high-flying words, the mass campaigns,

A new edition of Political Ponerology, by Andrew M. Łobaczewski, edited by Harrison Koehli, is now available on Amazon.1 This strange and provocative book argues that totalitarianism is the result of the extension of psychopathology from a group of psychopaths

A new economic fallacy came of age in the course of the last prewar decade and threatens to play havoc with the future peace of the world. This fallacy consists in saying that a country's national prosperity depends, essentially, upon

Jeff and Bob discuss the dynamics of the housing market in the context of a recent talk by Alex Pollock. "Hazlitt, Hayek, and How the Fed Made Itself into the World's Biggest Savings and Loan": mises.org/PollockAERC

President Biden on Thursday made two big admissions about the US-led economic sanctions on Russia. The first is that the sanctions will lead to food shortages for many countries other than Russia, and that this is simply the price that

In this article, I would like to present some fundamental economic thoughts on the cause of war, as war has chronically plagued human history, particularly the more recent history. In 1919, the economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) published a book

In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss whether Lindsey Graham is the worst member of the US Senate. The two carefully compare him to other terrible American senators — including Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton — before settling on a

In this week’s article, I’d like to discuss an aspect of Murray Rothbard’s criticism of Marxism that is often misunderstood. The topic is important not only for understanding the essay by Rothbard I’ll be discussing, “Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist,”