The abortion debate is often understood to hinge on the question of whether or not the fetus is a full-fledged member of the moral community of persons and/or possesses a property or properties that...
Francis Beckwith explains the many threats to natural rights that have evolved out of political authorities' refusal to recognize the meaning and importance of religious rites.
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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.