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There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state
In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution
California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment
The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment
As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality
Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions
A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution
After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jason-arday-and-dei-system-just-wont-die
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-government-grocery-discount
There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy
The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/imaginary-world-fed-independence
Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/return-economic-gaslighting
Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history
Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world
In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory
Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around
Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco
Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along
No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dupes-war
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
