A 1997 readers’ poll conducted by Britain’s Channel 4 and the Waterstone’s bookstore chain voted J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings the “greatest book of the century.” A 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers went even further, choosing it as the “greatest book of the millenium.” And now, Peter Jackson’s dramatization of The Fellowship of the Ring
The UK government is contemplating a radical reform of the British political system through far-reaching changes to the Parliament’s second chamber, the House of Lords. The socialists who favor this reform know exactly what they are doing. The result cannot be good for liberty and property, which have been under attack in Britain for a very long
The main political divide of our time is between those who trust the state and those who do not. We can argue without end about economics, regulation, trade, and war, but we have not touched the core issue until we address the questions: what is the state, and how much, if any, faith should we put in it? Here is an attempt to identify 10 essential
Educating the public has historically been the means by which classical liberals have tried to change the societies in which they lived, and move them in a more classical liberal direction. In a manner of speaking, liberals have always appealed to the means of persuasion . This is at least for two major categories of reasons. Historically,
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.