Our colleague and friend Mark Perry passed away today after a battle with lung cancer, his son Cal Perry announced on Twitter earlier this morning. It is devastating news to so many because Perry had been a staple in Washington foreign policy/military journalism and...
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Ending the 2021 Lockdowns Before They Start
by Ludwig von Mises Institute Editors | Aug 9, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Sixteen months ago, in March 2020, we argued for an end to government-imposed shutdowns of businesses, schools, churches, restaurants, and events due to the covid virus: The shutdown of the American economy by government decree should end. The lasting and far-reaching...
American Justice: Innocent Man Kidnapped, Drugged, and Caged in Mental Institution for Years
by Matt Agorist | Aug 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Every time Joshua Spriestersbach tried telling the doctors, nurses, and staff at a state hospital in Hawaii that they had the wrong man, no one listened and his protests were answered with drugs. After nearly three years, the blithering idiots running the hospital...
TGIF: Why Wouldn’t Government Grow?
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 6, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
One of the least mysterious things in life is why the government grows. The better question is why it ever shrinks. People who devote lots of time to thinking about the importance of individual liberty know that government is inimical to human flourishing. So they...
America’s COVID Kulaks
by Jim Bovard | Aug 6, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
"Shut up and submit” is now the favorite COVID cure of some of America’s leading progressives. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist, revealed on Tuesday that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless...
Next on the Agenda: War With China
by Connor Freeman | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2014, Lew Rockwell wrote, “Clearly the empire is targeting China...The U.S. seeks to encircle China and make it bow down before the hegemon. The increasing prosperity and freedom of China threatens the empire’s self-image.” America’s new Cold War with China is a...
Medical Apartheid Is Here
by John Whitehead | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
The things we were worried would happen are happening. — Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you...
Automation: A Luddite’s Dystopia and the Future of Work
by Marcos da Rocha Carvalho | Aug 4, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Andrew Yang ran his presidential campaign on the promise of providing American citizens with a monthly stipend to counter the effects of job loss. According to Yang, “up to 30% of jobs are at risk of automation.” The fear of the impact of new technologies is nothing...