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Jeff Deist joins Chris Casey for a politically incorrect look at the 2020 presidential election. They discuss the good, bad, and ugly of Trump’s performance, plus the absolutely awful state of the woke left. This is the kind of political analysis you won’t get from CNN, to put it

Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism and one leader of a new “national conservatism” project , recently wrote an important and compelling article for Quillette titled “ The Challenge of Marxism .” Hazony says out loud what few Western intellectuals will admit, namely that liberalism is not holding and has not triumphed in 2020 America

Listen to  the  Audio Mises Wire  version  of this article. Welcome to 2021 in post-persuasion America!   I first heard this term used by Steve Bannon, architect of the surprising 2016 Trump campaign, in a PBS  Frontline  documentary titled America’s Great Divide . Speaking way back in the precovid days of early 2020, Bannon asserted the

Imagine a form of almost magic money, one that everyone around the world needs and thus wants more of. Imagine that money being held in large quantities by central banks and commercial banks all around the world, and also lent out as the default denomination for most debt instruments. Imagine that money being used almost exclusively by

Neil Peart, the extraordinary drummer for the band Rush, has produced another terrific travel journal titled Far and Wide: Bring that Horizon to Me! Peart is already a photojournalist of some acclaim, having written several tour diaries over the years full of his musings and pictures from life on the road with one of the most successful rock acts

Quantitative easing, the program of asset buying initiated by the US Federal Reserve Bank in 2008, represents the most profound monetary experiment in the history of the world. Between fall of 2008 and fall of 2014, three successive rounds of QE quadrupled the monetary base of the world’s most-used and dominant currency, from less than $1 trillion

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, appeared on the TV magazine  60 Minutes  last night. If you’re craving empty calories, watch it here . The whole interview was an exercise in banal pleasantries, not to mention deadly dull. It’s what we’ve come to expect from Fed Chairs, nothing to see here, move along... But

Yoram Hazony ‘s recent “National Conservatism” conference attracted controversy, some of it deserved. Arch interventionist and National Security Advisor John Bolton was one featured speaker, injuring the gathering’s promise of a shifting foreign policy consensus on the Right. Tucker Carlson, by contrast, capably promoted an “America First” policy

The results from yesterday’s general election in the United Kingdom are stark for the Labour Party, which lost 59 seats in Parliament. The Tories picked up 47 seats, leaving Labour with its worst showing since 1935. This “second referendum” on Brexit presents Prime Minister Boris Johnson with clear support for a no-deal Brexit, while delivering a

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Americans are uniquely privileged, to the point of simply imagining they can stay home for months and months without suffering severe economic hardship as a result. Our unique privilege is delusion, the mentality that America is rich and will remain rich without particular effort on our part.