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2025-11-11 17:30:02 UTC

mises.org: Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals -- https://tinyurl.com/255kfbdz -- Rothbard: In contrast to older historians who regarded World War I as the destruction of progressive reform, I am convinced that the war came to the United States as the fulfillment, the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life. #liberty #news

2025-11-10 23:36:03 UTC

mises.org: Innovation Is Not the Key Driver of Economic Growth -- https://tinyurl.com/22lo7clx -- Contra the recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, free markets, private savings, and entrepreneurship not so-called innovation, is what drives a market economy. #liberty #news

2025-06-04 16:30:01 UTC

mises.org: Trump Is Building a Bigger Deep State with the Help of "Libertarian" Peter Thiel -- https://tinyurl.com/287v6lw6 -- JD Vance is clearly “Palantir’s man” and every call for “Vance 2024” is likely music to the ears of the deep state and its Big Tech allies. #liberty #news

2024-10-12 04:42:51 UTC

mises.org: The Manifestation of Economic Laws Across Societies and Epochs -- https://tinyurl.com/29xuvh7m -- Contra Marx, the laws of economics are immutable and are the same no matter what historical epoch exists. Economies cannot flourish unless market prices, private property rights, and profits and losses are unhampered. #liberty #news

2024-10-10 22:38:42 UTC

mises.org: Why Democracy Has Such Staying Power -- https://tinyurl.com/2xszezzk -- Democracy, or at least the “democracy” that ensures the “right people” are elected, is the religion of American progressives. Despite its obvious failures, however, progressives claim that democracy is the Holy Grail of governance. Why people believe this is another question. #liberty #news

2024-10-10 22:30:02 UTC

mises.org: The Big Con: No Matter the Form, Easy Money Is Still a Fraud -- https://tinyurl.com/27vkn2mb -- A recent fraudulent check-kiting scheme featured on Tik-Tok bears resemblance to some of the free money schemes that have been coming from the Federal Reserve. #liberty #news

2024-10-09 22:42:35 UTC

mises.org: The “Fascist” Ad Hominem As an Act of Projection -- https://tinyurl.com/yt3tj5r5 -- Mussolini: “The fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with the State. #liberty #news

2024-10-07 22:47:22 UTC

mises.org: Economic Calculation and the Entrepreneur: Austrian Economics Is the Best Source for Understanding the Market Economy -- https://tinyurl.com/yw7a74oy -- The concept of economic calculation is vitally important to understanding our modern economy, yet few people— and especially economists—fail to comprehend that it even exists. Yet, without economic calculation we cannot understand the process of entrepreneurship. #liberty #news

2024-10-07 10:30:02 UTC

mises.org: The Second Trump Shooter Believed Exactly What the Establishment Media Wanted Him to Believe -- https://tinyurl.com/yvnnysqh -- After Trump narrowly escaped another assassination attempt, the establishment seems uninterested in the motives of the would-be shooter. Perhaps that’s because he’s echoing the same simplistic narratives about the Ukraine war and Trump that they demand we all believe. #liberty #news

2024-10-03 22:30:01 UTC

mises.org: Vance vs. Walz: Should the Government “Do Something”? -- https://tinyurl.com/2ygz6e5o -- Tuesday night’s Vice-Presidential Debate was remarkable not for what was said (which was forgettable), but for what was not asked: What should be the proper role of government in what purports to be a free society? Neither candidates nor the moderators were interested in that question. #liberty #news

2024-10-01 04:34:06 UTC

reason.com: Did the Abraham Accords Pave the Way for Total War? -- https://tinyurl.com/252eq8xt -- Many conservatives saw the Abraham Accords as a way to get U.S. forces out of the Middle East. Now the architect of the agreement is pushing for a regime change campaign in Lebanon—and maybe Iran. #liberty #news

2024-09-30 10:30:02 UTC

reason.com: Second Amendment Roundup: VanDerStok Tests Limits of Yet Another ATF Rule -- https://tinyurl.com/25q7sepb -- The Supreme Court is set to decide whether the agency may expand criminal liability under the Gun Control Act. #liberty #news

2024-06-28 10:30:01 UTC

reason.com: Double Haters -- https://tinyurl.com/2h6w3pra -- Plus: Libertarian Party fracture, little kid Census data, flashing boobs for social justice, and more... #liberty #news

2024-04-22 22:45:12 UTC

mises.org: Can There Be Justice Outside of the State? Yes -- https://tinyurl.com/29jrzbkw -- People have come to believe that only the state is morally qualified to create and maintain a system of justice. However, given that the state itself acts unjustly, perhaps it is time to look outside of the state. #liberty #news