The Irony of Marxist Class Con...
Marx believed truth could only be fully understood by a certain socioeconomic class. Ludwig von Mises disagreed. Antony Sammeroff...
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The Moral Authority of the Loc...
Ryan McMaken – Six weeks ago, when thousands around the nation took to state capitols to protest the human rights abuses...
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Peyton Gouzien – The main reason that the socialists have had the staying power that has, luckily, eluded the Nazis is the...
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Gary Galles – Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Americans have been told countless times that public policy was based on...
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Although national tragedies tend to bring a country together, it seems clear that the coronavirus will leave America as divided as it...
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The 1958 pandemic killed twice as many people as COVID-19 has so far. Yet, the economy in 2020 has collapsed far worse than either in...
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Determining which businesses shall be open and how many people shall be allowed to gather is just another form of central...
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Twenty twenty is likely to be a watershed year in the history of public schooling. And things aren’t looking good for the public...
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Crashes are fast, like that first hill on a coaster. Recoveries are not, for the simple reason that production is more difficult than...
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Perhaps never before in American history have the unelected technocrats played such an enormous role in shaping public policy in...
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All of the job gains made since the Great Recession were wiped out in just a few weeks by the economic shutdown of the...
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Robert P. Murphy The latest report on new unemployment claims was abysmal, coming in at 4.4 million last week, some 100,000 more than...
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In the early days of the COVID-19 panic—about three weeks ago—it was common to hear both of these phrases often repeated: Ryan...
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Jim Fedako – Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The CDC estimates that 61,000 Americans died from the flu...
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Ryan McMaken Some White House advisors like Anthony Fauci have often acted as if they were in a position to dictate to states whether...
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The freedom of private companies to disassociate from speech that they consider harmful is especially important during the current...
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Young people today are delaying starting “adult” life until later and later. The median age of first marriage has climbed to nearly...
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The virus has unleashed petite tyrants to haunt their tiny jurisdictions, using the cover of crisis to arrogate powers belonging to...
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Under Communism, according to Leon Trotsky, “the average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a...
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J. Kyle deVries Bernie Sanders declares with piety, “Healthcare is a human right.” His statement may sound reasonable, because when...
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