The latest figures published by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are staggering. $75 billion saved in two weeks. Some of the items they have slashed are astonishing, including payments...

Revisiting James Burnham

02/21/2025 Mises Wire David Brady, Jr.

Neoconservatism was born out of former Trotskyites that became anti-Communists at the end of the Second World War. After the campus protests and student movements of the late 1960s and early ‘70s...

Just War and Lost Cause Mythology

02/21/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

Rothbardian libertarianism upholds liberty as an ethical and moral standard, and for this reason it is often criticized for being idealistic and utopian. Addressing this critique, Duncan Whitmore...

Why the Bureaucracy Keeps Getting Bigger

02/21/2025 Mises Wire Murray N. Rothbard

[This article is adapted from “ Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States.”] Bureaucracy is necessarily hierarchical, first because of the Iron Law of Oligarchy, and secondly because...

A Reader Describes the Realities of Work as a Defense Contractor

02/21/2025 Power & Market Ryan McMaken

Writes “GS”, in response to recent articles on federal contractors and federal employees: Onsite observations of civil servants and their contractors I found what I believe to be averages: 25% hard...

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H.A. Scott Trask

Historian Scott Trask was an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute.

Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004

02/12/2022 Mises Daily H.A. Scott Trask

So many to choose from but Scott Trask picks ten of the most glaring economic errors that have bespotted the history of American economic policy.

What Brought on the French Revolution?

02/04/2022 Mises Daily H.A. Scott Trask

Bad economics and an overextended empire contributed to creating conditions that led to disaster, writes H.A. Scott Trask.

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