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The subject of the medieval period highlights the vast gulf that separates scholarly opinion from popular opinion. This is a grave frustration for scholars who have been working to change popular opinion for a hundred years. For most people, the medieval period brings to mind populations living by myths and crazy superstitions such as we might see

Listen to  the  Audio Mises Wire  version  of this article. [ Editor’s Note: In this 2009 article, Lew Rockwell lists the problems with government mandates on private use of mobile phones. Observant readers will note the “public safety” arguments against the freedom to use phones as we choose are essentially the same as current claims that “public

[ Originally published November 11, 2009. ] Do you think ideas don’t matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest. A new BBC poll [reported November 2009] finds that only 11 percent of people questioned around the world — and 29,000 people were

The world has an impression of the United States as a freewheeling, hard-drinking country where few things are regulated. The world should wake up to the reality that the United States is governed by a totalitarian bureaucracy that claims to manage every aspect of our lives, which means of course managing the economy with massive regulatory

It might take a while to sink in, but the global-warming cause is on the skids. Two issues are taking the whole project down: it is getting cooler not warmer (and hence the change of the rhetoric to a vague concern over “climate change”); the email scandal of a few weeks back proved that this really is an opinion cartel with preset views not

In an extended propagandistic interview in Time magazine, Ben Bernanke is finally asked the crucial question: Q: So, I’m a fringe economics type, I’m not personally, but I’m saying a reader picks up TIME Magazine, and they see this and they go, oh, my God, Ben Bernanke, low interest rates caused this whole thing. He’s just an extension of that

[This talk was delivered at the Jeremy Davis Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on January 23, 2010.] I’m finding it ever more difficult to describe to people the kind of world that the Mises Institute would like to see, with the type of political order that Mises and the entire classical-liberal tradition believed would be most beneficial for

All this talk of unemployment is preposterous. Think of it. We live in a world with lots of imperfections, things that need to be done. It has always been so and always will be so. That means that there is always work to be done, and therefore, always jobs. The problem of unemployment is a problem of disconnect between those who would work and

The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It

“When I discovered what was true, I could not resist acting on it and telling others. “   Daily Bell: You have almost singlehandedly led a revolution in thought that has changed the world. How does that make you feel? Rockwell: Well, thank you, but that’s not how ideas work. Without donors, faculty, students, collaborators, distribution media, and