Our Enemy, The Bureaucracy: Mises Circle in Phoenix

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“What bureaucrats and power elites always want is for the opposition to shut up and go away, to obey orders, to accept their assigned tasks.”

— Murray N. Rothbard

We won’t shut up or go away.

Bureaucracy is both a weapon and a weakness for the modern state. While bureaucracy regulates, spies on, and controls almost every aspect of our lives, it is impeded by its own incompetence and waste. That’s why Mises said, in his book of the same name, “The ultimate basis of an all-around bureaucratic system is violence,” and “Of course, the bulk of the bureaucrats were rather mediocre men.”

Maybe we should be thankful for bureaucratic inefficiency because without it we’d suffer more bureaucratic violence.

Join the Mises Institute this April in Phoenix, Arizona, to expose the danger and waste of bureaucracy. Speakers include Dr. Robert Malone, discussing his provocative book PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order and the role of psychological operations in bureaucratic control; Tom Woods, exposing the madness of covid-era “public health” authorities, which he documented in his book Diary of a Psychosis; and Tom DiLorenzo roasting the corruption and hypocrisy of our federal bureaucracy.

We’ll meet at the Arizona Biltmore on Saturday, April 26. Registration is $100 for Mises Members and $120 for Nonmembers and includes all lectures and a catered meal. 

Preliminary Schedule

9:00 a.m. - Registration begins, breakfast and bookstore open

10:00 a.m. - Welcome and opening remarks

10:10 a.m. - Tom DiLorenzo

10:40 a.m. - Tom Woods

11:10 a.m. - Break, bookstore open

11:30 a.m. - Robert Malone

12:00 p.m. - Speaker Panel 

12:30 p.m. - Adjourn

Nearby Hotels

While there are rooms available at the Biltmore, there are several other hotel options within 15 minutes of the property. 

• Embassy Suites by Hilton Phoenix Biltmore
• AC Hotel Phoenix Biltmore
• The Camby
• Hampton Inn Phoenix-Biltmore
• Homewood Suites by Hiton Phoenix-Biltmore

Sponsorship

Donors who give $5,000 will be listed on the Host Committee on the event schedule, receive a complimentary ticket to the event, sit at a speaker table for the entire event, and have a private dinner with the event speakers on Friday night. 

Donors who give $3,000 will choose which speaker they wish to sponsor, receive a complimentary ticket to the event, and sit at a speaker table. 

For questions or more information, contact Kristy Holmes, (334) 321-2101 or kristy@mises.org.