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For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done is protect farmland. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/farmland-protection-policy-act-crisis-politics-and-quiet-socialization-land

Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same kinds of assets earlier generations procured. The result is inter-generational conflict. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-interventionism-and-intergenerational-resentment

David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing. Americans should know how FDR’s presidency led to one disaster after another. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bursting-bubble-was-fdr

Elon Musk recently claimed that artificial intelligence will make money itself obsolete. He needs to read the literature of Austrian economics. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/elon-musk-claims-money-will-become-irrelevant-he-right

Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-banning-hate-speech-evil

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the lies from Washington. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/unjustified-conflict-grants-memoirs-mexican-american-war

The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/lane-train-and-rest-college-football-madness-has-been-fueled-easy-money

New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real things and reality will hit New Yorkers soon enough, and they won’t like it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/zohran-mamdanis-socialism-flunks-basic-economics

For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that's really about family fun and eating a huge meal. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-domestic-life

The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-free-enterprise

From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/families-are-key-building-alternatives-state

In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebrating-birth-american-free-enterprise

Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.” Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/minarchism-worst-kind-state-idolatry

The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-intervention-not-blackrock-blame-housing-crisis

Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-i-wont-be-mourning-dick-cheney

We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/origins-welfare-state-america

Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/road-de-civilization-inflation-and-moral-erosion-society

Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s early libertarians. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/roger-williams-exemplar-americas-soul

The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/meaning-revolution

The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/food-stamps-and-federal-war-self-reliance

November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-world-war-i-triumph-progressive-intellectuals

We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/resisting-evil

The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge wealth transfers can bring medical care to low-income people—is fundamentally flawed. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dystopia-misdiagnosed-how-rich-drive-health-innovation

If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-accidental-case-against-state

While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/election-mamdani-what-it-means-and-what-it-doesnt-mean