After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained

In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race

The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to housing construction in California.

Original article: https://mises.org/misesian/how-democratic-socialism-created-californias-housing-crisis

The up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the state, do not operate apart from state interference.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/domestic-agorism-eastern-europes-example-libertarianism-without-academic-guidance

For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither inequality nor economics.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-much-inequality-there-depends-how-its-measured

The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it. For them, decentralization and secession were potential solutions not problems in ending slavery.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anti-slavery-advocates-disunion

Norway sits on large oil deposits, yet has managed to avoid the “resource curse” that has bedeviled so many nations that have abundant natural resources, but severely mismanage their economies.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-norway-built-worlds-largest-fund-and-thriving-economy-boot

While the democratic socialists are claiming to just want a society like they have in Denmark, their real aims are the seizure of all or most private property and especially private capital.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-democratic-socialists-want-soviet-style-control-capital

Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right

Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union