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The anti-meat movement has influenced government policy well beyond anything close to the truth about meat. From the discredited food pyramid to government funding of “lab-grown meat,” government aids the activists who are making our lives worse.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/next-food-pyramid-lab-grown-meat-and-new-moral-orthodoxy

With President Trump demanding people in the armed forces as well as in other government offices do his bidding no matter what the law might be, it is time for people to learn the lesson of Captain Vere.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/god-bless-captain-vere-when-constitutional-duty-yields-institutional-power

In this interview with Kaneki Kojo, Mark Thornton explains why gold acts like a “canary in the coal mine” for runaway debt, war, and inflation, and why today’s war-driven oil spike can perversely push gold down by delaying central-bank rate cuts.

The original interview is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXm-5wBJm3c

Our own Jonathan Newman had the opportunity to sit down with a Federal Reserve governor. The central banker's answers to Newman's questions were evasive and riddled with contradictions. It seems there is not much behind the Fed's technocratic veneer.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/look-behind-feds-curtains

The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-trumps-populism-failed

Just as, for them, liberty must be the highest political end, peace must be the highest end of foreign policy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/libertarians-must-never-warm-warfare-state

A foreign policy that seeks to maintain a global empire is entirely incompatible with the laissez-faire, free-market system at home that many hawkish self-described libertarians claim to support.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-was-right-libertarians-must-never-warm-warfare-state

President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time for policy reset.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-foreign-policy-latin-america-and-caribbean-needs-strategic-reset

According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-pays-hormuz-toll

In dealing with the question of why the United States, a country founded on liberty, turned into a militaristic behemoth, Ralph Raico looked to the work of historian Arthur Ekirch for answers.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/raico-ekirch-and-tragedy-american-militarism