A definition of “projection” is when one baselessly accuses others of doing something unsavory, immoral, or illegal that he is actually doing. For example, a thief who, without proof, accuses others of being thieves. This is what socialists…

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually alternate in first and…

On October 23, 2024, Tom DiLorenzo appeared NOW with Stacy Washington, to explain how the Chinese Communist Party is imitating what the Federal Reserve did in the early 2000s. https://youtu.be/dUxVv3wm9R4 The original episode is available on SalemNewsChannel.com. Stacy Washington (SW): Welcome back…

At the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Hilton Head, South Carolina Tom Woods made some flattering comments about Yours Truly regarding my 2000 book coauthored with James T. Bennett entitled From Pathology to Politics: Public Health in…

Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Article posted with permission from Thomas DiLorenzo

A definition of “projection” is when one baselessly accuses others of doing something unsavory, immoral, or illegal that he is actually doing. For example, a thief who, without proof, accuses others of being thieves. This is what socialists…

Labor unions are exempted from federal antitrust laws including the Sherman Antitrust Act, which outlaws “conspiracies in restraint of trade.” This is not a bad thing: Everyone should be exempted from antitrust laws. They are an assault on property rights…

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in…

The United States abolished its first three central banks, and this was followed by a period of immense economic growth. End the Fed? We did it before and can do it again. In discussing the Mises Institute’s June…

Libertarians understand — or should understand — that military conscription is a form of slavery or involuntary servitude. In fact, everyone should understand this. And yet conscription has been employed by the U.S. government for the past 161…

The purpose of the war is “extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people.” Letter from General Sherman to Mrs. Sherman, July 31, 1862 “[H]ad the Confederates somehow won .…

Elon Musk has announced that he would like to serve in a Trump administration as the head of a newly-created Department of Government Efficiency which he labeled the D.O.G.E.  Just what we need: A new federal bureaucracy.  Former…

I am excited to announce our next major project here at the Mises Institute, the Lessons for the Young Economist video series. This will be designed for homeschoolers and young people. It will be something they will actually want to…

In discussing the Mises Institute’s June 24th full-page Wall Street Journal ad entitled “Who Needs the Fed?” on talk radio recently most of the interviewers naturally expressed skepticism over whether the Fed could ever actually be abolished and a gold-and-silver…

(Two OF Independence, One Against) Three of the most important American political declarations are the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address, and Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address.  The first was a declaration of secession from the British…

“First of all, don’t target civilians.” ~Murray Rothbard’s first principle of just war in his essay, “Just War” Like Hans Hoppe, I have been a friend of Walter Block’s for decades. I co-authored a book and an article…

Millions of American “evangelical” Christians have been indoctrinated in the idea that they must be worshipful of Israeli politicians and bureaucrats. This is so because they are taught by preachers like John Hagee that the Bible says that God will…