Mises Daily

Acton says the muse of the historian is Rhadamanthus, the avenger of innocent blood: "The historian must be a judge, and a hanging judge at that, to right the wrongs of history."

All the teachings and precepts of ethics presuppose the moral autonomy of the individual and therefore appeal to the individual's conscience.

Contrary to myth, Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one.

The Roman Empire crumbled to dust because it lacked the spirit of liberalism and free enterprise.

A history of statism and credit expansion that demonstrates the failure of Keynesian policy. (Analysis by Jeffrey Herbener)

The New Deal is a paradigmatic case of how to turn a downturn into a depression. That US leaders regard this as a model to follow does not speak very well of their economic literacy, and it doesn't bode well for our future.

The question that arises for the state ruler is: How can I free myself of two effective constraints on my power: tax-resistance in the form of falling tax revenue and the need to borrow from and pay interest to banks? 

Gary North shows how Rothbard always had the ability to go to the central issue in a debate. He wrote clearly. He wrote continuously. He wrote for almost anyone who would give him an opportunity to put an idea in print.

The Nazi regime represented not a unique evil in history but rather a now conventional combination of two dangerous ideological trends: nationalism and socialism.

In the case of both athlete and teacher, the rarity of the skill and the number of people who benefit from the individual determines how much they're paid.