Today Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. American voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t. Why they did so, and how Trump prevailed, is the biggest political story of our age. But the rejection of progressive hubris, what Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” of those
Will Grigg, full name William Norman Grigg, passed away today after a series of hospitalizations. He was much too young to leave us. Will was a dedicated voice for liberty, and a prolific writer and blogger on the subjects of police misconduct and police militarization. An archive of the many articles he wrote for LewRockwell.com is here . He also
[Reprinted from the Lara-Murphy Report , February 2017.] LARA-MURPHY REPORT: How did you become interested in Austrian economics? JEFF DEIST: Fortunately Austrian economics became interested in me, through two happy developments. First, my father had a tattered paperback copy of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom on his bookshelf when I was a teenager.
The always provocative Justin Raimondo, longtime editor of Antiwar.com , has a new column in Chronicles Magazine that asks a very simple question: Whatever happened to the libertarian movement? It’s a question worth asking, especially given the multifarious disagreements over what “libertarian” even means at this point. This may be the natural
An audio version of this article is available here. The spectacle of anti-gun marches this past weekend, at times both sinister and maudlin, provides yet another example that “democracy” does not yield some kind of livable compromise on any given issue. Instead it creates division and distrust, fed by a media environment that encourages using
[Editors note: The new fourth edition of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles is now available at the Mises Bookstore. ] Jesús Huerta de Soto is probably the most important Austro-libertarian thinker you’re not reading, but there’s an easy solution. His incredible banking treatise, titled Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles , is free
The $85 billion mega-merger of AT&T with Time Warner appears headed for consummation, which will create another big digital media company with telecom underpinnings. But will this endless scramble for eyeballs and clicks, the quest to determine which platforms finicky content consumers will choose in coming years, actually create any value for
JEFF DEIST: You are German, but not from a big city in Germany. GUIDO HÜLSMANN: That’s correct, a small town. JD: Did your small-town upbringing influence your career and outlook? GH: I think so. The town where I went to high school in those years had the highest communist voter percentage in all of Western Germany. And this presence made itself
An audio version of this article is available here . We are accustomed to predatory language from politicians, but this issuance from Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy’s twitter account yesterday is particularly telling: Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.
The mission of the Mises Institute, as presaged by Ludwig von Mises in his 1962 review of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State: If we want to avoid the destruction of Western civilization and the relapse into primitive wretchedness, we must change the mentality of our fellow citizens. We must make them realize what they owe to the much
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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.
