Mises Institute

The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/questioning-annexation-texas-us-state

President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal policies are making this country less secure.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-national-insecurity-strategy

From war to tariffs to inflation, it is clear Donald Trump is a devoted disciple of the ideology of statism and interventionism. The fact he’s better than the atrocious Kamala Harris doesn’t change this.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/statism-donald-trump

From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/panic-1893-austrian-view

Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-indians-separating-truth-fiction

Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/illogic-reparations-historical-standards-selective-memory-and-logic-victory

A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-year-we-will-hear-even-more-environmental-doom-because-doomsday-industry-never-rests

In the wake of WWI, Pope Pius XI reminded his readers that governments instituted by men can never be perfect, and they cannot even be good if they neglect natural law.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rise-state-and-fall-natural-law

As government continues to engage in reckless actions from inflation to starting wars, people develop shorter time horizons, creating social vacuums. Increased gambling and other irresponsible behaviors then fill the void.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/kalshi-culture-how-gambling-speculation-and-degeneracy-went-mainstream

In theory, the Constitution should safeguard individual liberty by giving citizens a bulwark against state tyranny. However, the Constitution actually advanced federal government power or failed to ultimately prevent it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/constitution-weak-reed