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Exploring the Historical Context of the Cornerstone...

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2025/01/20

Alexander Stephens's infamous “Cornerstone” speech remains controversial even today. The simple revisionist narrative is that the northern states opposed slavery while only the South supported it. Like all narratives, it leaves out important information.

USA's Worst Three Presidents

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2025/01/20

Tom DiLorenzo appears on the Tom Woods Show.

The Myth of Social Justice

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2025/01/20

Wanjiru Njoya appears on The Tom Woods Show to discuss Hayek's critique of "social justice."

Can Monetary and Fiscal Stimulus Counter Recessions?

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2025/01/20

The standard Keynesian line is that the government can shorten recessions by using fiscal and monetary “stimulus.” However, as Austrian economists note, ratcheting up government spending only makes things worse, setting the stage for the next economic downturn.

Gen X and Retirement Benefits: Uncertainty Abounds

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2025/01/20

As people from Generation X move toward retirement, they are starting to understand that Social Security really is in crisis and many public pension plans are underfunded. Furthermore, they find that inflation is eating through their retirement savings. This won‘t end well.

Pardon Mania: The Regime Protects Its Own

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2025/01/20

The recent frenzy of pardons is an important reminder that there is no such thing as the so-called “rule of law” in the United States.

Private Firefighters: Not Just for the Elite Anymore

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2025/01/20

In Los Angeles, if you want your home or business protected from fires, you must hire concierge firefighters.

The Conquest of the United States by Spain

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2025/01/20

Americans once dreamed of a country that did not care about global greatness or glory. It was within our reach if we had been wise enough to grasp and hold it.

For Inauguration Day, Open Federal Files and Give...

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2025/01/19

Joe Biden‘s term is over, but while in office he continued the practice of lying and locking up federal documents that could expose federal government wrongdoing. One hopes against hope that President Trump will reverse that trend.

The Price of Beef

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2025/01/18

Is there a magic wand to solve the problem of high beef prices? Yes, actually.

Progressive Worldviews Are Based Upon a Collection of...

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2025/01/18

Michael Huemer’s book Progressive Myths takes the progressive worldviews to task, exposing them for their deceitfulness. As usual, the narratives do not fit the truth.

The Biggest Piece That Critics of the “Woke Right” Miss

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2025/01/18

The author James Lindsay has gotten mileage by introducing the phrase “Woke Right” to describe certain ideological elements associated with the MAGA movement. The “woke” concepts coming from the left, however, are not the same, structurally speaking, as what conservatives are saying.

Lawrence McQuillan Explains The Policy Inferno Behind...

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2025/01/18

Lawrence McQuillan joins Bob to delve into the regulatory failures and mismanagement behind the wildfire crisis in California.

No, Climate Change Is Not Causing California’s...

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2025/01/17

A major reason the wildfires in LA last week were so destructive is because of how the government intervenes in the home insurance market.

The Laissez-Faire Peasant: A New Book from...

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2025/01/17

Mises Wire author Jovana Diković has just released a new book on rural economic development titled T he Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-socialist rural development in Serbia.

Should We Worship Lincoln?

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2025/01/17

Harry Jaffa suggested that Americans should adopt a “civil religion,” with Lincoln as a quasi-divine figure. This, of course, makes the state into a quasi-divine institution.

Achieving Peace in a Warmonger’s World

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2025/01/17

If we are to achieve peace, we must get rid of those entities that create havoc even while strengthening themselves politically. In a word, we need to get rid of the Fed.

The LA Fires: Progressive Governance Claims More Victims

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2025/01/16

While California politicians and the New York Times blame “climate change” for the disastrous wildfires in Los Angeles, the blame actually lies with those politicians themselves. Their policies have guaranteed that something like this would happen.

“Class” Analysis: Marx’s Shell Game

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2025/01/16

Marxism is seen by American and European intellectuals as being a sophisticated and legitimate set of theories that explains social problems in capitalist societies. Yet, the entire edifice of Marxism from “class conflict” to the Labor Theory of Value is nonsense.

The Cultural War in Economic Science

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2025/01/16

The challenge facing economic science is to counter the states and governments that smother voluntary cooperation and free human interaction.

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