Sophia Bringman is a philosophy and politics undergraduate student at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA, and is a Mises Apprentice. After graduation from college, she plans on pursuing a joint JD/PhD in bioethics.
In Aristotle’s well-known Ethics , he poses an age-old question: Can reasoning guide action, and should it direct our way of living? Unfortunately, this question loses its relevancy when put in the...
As Murray Rothbard noted, reason is a powerful tool to help us discern how to thrive in our world. Government, through propaganda and interference with education, seeks to stifle reason and replace it with obedience to the state.
What is the Mises Institute?
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.