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Peter Klein traces the ideological transformation of the UC system from a world-class research institution to a cautionary tale of government-subsidized capture, arguing that the real culprit isn't California's culture but the funding, ownership, and governance structure that insulates universities from market accountability and rewards ideological conformity. 

Recorded in San Diego, California, on April 25, 2026.

California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high housing costs and high taxes. The state’s future is about to become a lot worse, as socialists are rising in power here.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/where-california-went-wrong

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Of course the president, like everyone, frequently protests his desire for peace. Everyone does this. And I think we may assume he is quite sincere about it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/president-goes-war

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Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort led to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-antitrust-populists-drove-spirit-airlines-out-business

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If executed perfectly, this swap allows the Fed to neutralize a shrinking money supply by swapping $2 trillion in mortgages for $2 trillion in government debt. 

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/mbs-slope-n-swap

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to a more peaceful world. We are still waiting for that moment of peace.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fukuyama-was-wrong-history-did-not-end

The populist “victory” of the Trump administration is perhaps the best evidence yet that a strategy of “vote harder” is simply not going to lead to any significant change in the power of the regime.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/vote-harder-why-secession-only-answer-american-megastate

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Philosopher Matt Zwolinski has declared libertarianism to lack any coherent standards. Zwolinski’s confusion is the result of his rejection of libertarianism as outlined by Murray Rothbard and others based upon free markets based on individual rights.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/libertarianism-incoherent

The government created a market for stolen goods, paid criminals cash for five months, watched robberies spike, arrested everyone at a mafia-themed party, then called it a success because arrests went up. The robberies they subsidized didn't count.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/when-federal-government-subsidized-robberies

The recent DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center might be controversial, but what is not controversial is that the SPLC engaged in conduct that was more reminiscent of the Ministry of Love in 1984 than protecting someone’s civil rights.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/justice-department-indicts-ministry-love