Not a day goes by when the liberal media don’t telegraph to the world that a “ Trumpocracy ” is destroying American democracy. Conspicuous by its absence is a pesky fact: Ours was never a country conceived as a democracy. To arrive at a democracy, we Americans destroyed a republic. One of the ways in which the republic was destroyed was through
“This is just a truly astonishing moment coming from the White House podium,” tweeted MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt. Like the rest of the media pack-animals she hunts with, Ms. Hunt had been fuming over President Trump’s telephone call to Vladimir Putin, congratulating him on winning another term as president. Reliably opposed to a truce were party heavies
I recently traveled to Texas to speak about South Africa , at the Free Speech Forum of the Texas A & M University. To travel from the Pacific Northwest all the way to College Station, Texas , without experiencing more of the “Lone Star State” was not an option. So, after driving from Austin eastward to College Station (where I was hosted by two
First came the Republican memo, courtesy of the Republican House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes. Their memo detailed the surveillance abuses against one Carter Page, enabled by a kangaroo court which was strengthened immeasurably by the old Republican-Party boss, George Bush. Bush II had fortified the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Dear President Carol C. Harter, U niversities are supposed to contribute to the development of character in their young charges. All too often they prefer to breed spineless, spoilt youngsters, forever poised to receive offence and ever eager to deploy Soviet-style procedures to destroy careers and reputations. The complaining student was offended
This Time Magazine Europe article on the WTO mentions my article for the Mises Institute, but it is slightly misleading: we don’t want the WTO to be more effective; we would like to see it abolished and replaced with real free
While this may seem like a no-brainer to many, some individuals (i.e. regulators and various economists) suggest that because perfect information does not exist for all market participants, the market must be regulated . The reality of the situation seems to contradict this paternalistic urge and several entrepreneurs have specialized (exploited,
With the anniversary of the WTO protest, the protesters once again descended on the city of Seattle. Like a troop of primates, they hooted, threw rocks and bottles of gasoline, even pelleted a police officer’s eye out. Those who weren’t dragged off, left, knuckles still trailing the pavement, and the debate not much more elevated. The WTO must, of
What do the activists mean when they contend that the intellectual property regime overseen by the World Trade Organization is disadvantaging underdeveloped nations? Is a change of geography and demographics enough to turn ostensibly legitimate property rights into coercive tools? This seems unlikely—unless, of course, the rights in question are
I have no reason to celebrate the transfer of more than one hundred Canadian newspapers, including half-ownership of the National Post , from Conrad Black’s Hollinger Inc. to Izzy Asper’s CanWest Global Communications Corp. Shortly after the CanWest media acquisition flurry, I was fired by the new owner of the Vancouver-based North Shore News ,
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.