4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (330+ words) The central narrative of the modern regulatory state is that minority economic progress was stagnant until the federal government intervened with sweeping legislative mandates in the mid-1960s. Sowell shattered this myth using straightforward, unassailable census data. By enacting sweeping programs and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) As pointed out by Alexander Fink, three features in particular render the Hanse especially intractable for scholars who wish to fit it into models of state governance or jurisdictional prerogative. First, the Hanse never had any power to tax. In…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (176+ words) Rothbard reads the Second World War through rival interests: Rockefeller pressure for war with Japan over oil and rubber, Morgan commitment to Britain and France. He then follows the postwar Eastern Establishment, its “Cowboy” Sun Belt challengers, and the CIA…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (169+ words) Rothbard traces the Milner Group from Rhodes’s 1891 society through its command of British postwar planning and the expert delegation at Versailles, to the founding of the Institute of International Affairs in Paris in 1919. Its first American member had come to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (177+ words) Rothbard shows the Progressive Party ploy that delivered Wilson the presidency, the Morgan men who surrounded him, and the influence of Colonel House. With the Morgan empire financially precarious by 1914, the firm became fiscal agent for Britain and France; Rothbard…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (104+ words) The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty The Two Lineages of Liberty The movement toward liberty…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1418+ words) That man was Theodore N. Vail. This article largely presents Vail in his own words and seeks to demonstrate how transparent he was about inviting state intervention to move his industry toward monopoly. Historian Burton Fulsom’s The Myth of the Robber…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1427+ words) That man was Theodore M. Vail. This article largely presents Vail in his own words and seeks to demonstrate how transparent he was about inviting state intervention to move his industry toward monopoly. Historian Burton Fulsom’s The Myth of the Robber…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (114+ words) The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1018+ words) The Declaration of Independence—as a bold act of secession—can be understood as one of the earliest major challenges to modern centralized sovereign authority within the emerging nation-state system. Understanding the Hobbesian nation-state is crucial to fully appreciating the…...