Realistic Prospects for Secession and Decentralization
This week's show features a panel discussion recorded in late October at our annual Supporters Summit. Panelists Ryan McMaken, Jeff Deist, Mike Maharrey, and Tho Bishop lay out real strategies for achieving decentralization. Includes an introduction by Joey Clark. Recorded in
The Madness of Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains
The new proposal is framed as a tax on the ultrarich. The same was true of the new income tax in 1913. If given the power to tax unrealized gains, expect the feds to expand the tax to ordinary people. Original
Panel: “Strategic Alternatives in Education”
Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the
Lincoln and the Social Contract
In The Broken Constitution, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021) Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, argues that Abraham Lincoln criticized consent theories of government which allow the legitimacy of secession and defended in their stead majoritarian democracy. In
Panel: “Entrepreneurship vs. The State”
The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the state. Today his prescription for a bottom-up ideological
Paul Gottfried on the Virginia Election
McAuliffe could not dissociate himself entirely from national politics because he was a national Democratic figure closely allied to the Clintons for decade Original Article: "Paul Gottfried on the Virginia Election" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated
Get Ready for the Socialist Calculation Debate Redux
It has been just over a century since Ludwig von Mises started the socialist calculation debate, one of the main contenders for fight of the century in economic theory. The debate raged primarily throughout the 1930s, but was also active
How Media and Tech Elites Seized Control of Elections
Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and social system of organization. Original Article: "How Media and Tech Elites Seized
The Hermeneutical Invasion
In recent years, economists have invaded other intellectual disciplines and, in the dubious name of "science," have employed staggeringly oversimplified assumptions in order to make sweeping and provocative conclusions about fields they know very little about. This is a modern
Panel: “Are Universities Too Far Gone?”
The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the state. Today his prescription for a bottom-up ideological