Panel: “Entrepreneurship vs. The State”
The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the state. Today his prescription for a bottom-up ideological
Lincoln and the Social Contract
In The Broken Constitution, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021) Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, argues that Abraham Lincoln criticized consent theories of government which allow the legitimacy of secession and defended in their stead majoritarian democracy. In
Paul Gottfried on the Virginia Election
McAuliffe could not dissociate himself entirely from national politics because he was a national Democratic figure closely allied to the Clintons for decade Original Article: "Paul Gottfried on the Virginia Election" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated
The Quad Summit 2021- A Strategic Move?
The Quad, initially a security dialogue between the USA, India, Japan and Australia, was established in 2007. The aim of this strategic dialogue was to counter the rise in China’s economic and military power. The first in-person Quad Summit hosted
Get Ready for the Socialist Calculation Debate Redux
It has been just over a century since Ludwig von Mises started the socialist calculation debate, one of the main contenders for fight of the century in economic theory. The debate raged primarily throughout the 1930s, but was also active
The Hermeneutical Invasion
In recent years, economists have invaded other intellectual disciplines and, in the dubious name of "science," have employed staggeringly oversimplified assumptions in order to make sweeping and provocative conclusions about fields they know very little about. This is a modern
Panel: “Are Universities Too Far Gone?”
The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the state. Today his prescription for a bottom-up ideological
The Unfortunate Consequences of Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
The conflict over covid vaccines is coming to a climax. The Biden administration released its vaccine mandate. Enterprises with more than one hundred employees will be required to demonstrate that all employees either are fully vaccinated or both wear masks
Libertarian Strategy From The Jacksonians
On the latest Free Man Beyond The Wall podcast, Pete Quiñones, Patrick Newman, and Tho Bishop discuss Andrew Jackson and his cadre who fought against central banks — and cronyism in general. What can libertarians learn from the strategy they
What China Could Learn from the Debt-for-Equity Schemes of Yesteryear
Following the Treaty of Utrecht, which concluded the War of the Spanish Succession, both England and France found themselves hopelessly mired in public debt. Both, it turned out, hit upon a similar solution for trying to magic it away, and