Tom Woods, guest host of “The Peter Schiff Show,” interviews Peter Klein, who discusses how the anti-Apartheid movement, Mandela included, erroneously viewed Apartheid as a “capitalist” system, and turned to Marxism-Leninism as the only viable economic (and political)
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. As 2013 draws to a close, let’s pause to recall some important developments for the cause of liberty – some of which you already know well, and others you’ll be hearing about for the first time. Edward Snowden . After sitting on the Bush-era warrantless wiretapping story for 18 months, the New York Times revealed a
The internet has the potential to revolutionize higher education, as new providers and platforms such as Khan Academy, TED, the various MOOC providers, and our own Mises Academy offer modular, flexible, and specialized alternatives to the medieval model that continues to dominate the establishment universities. The early -- and predictable --
Not surprisingly, the work of this week’s new Nobel prize winners have been the subject of several critiques here at the Mises Institute: Today’s Mises Daily article on Robert Shiller’s pro-government enthusiasm is a simplified version of Howden’s book review from The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics . Howden’s new summary and critique of
Reassessing the Presidency , an 825-page collection of essays from top scholars in the Austrian tradition, is a groundbreaking work that demolishes the court historians’ case for endless president-worship. We’re happy to announce that the book is now available as an ebook in the Mises Store
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