Audio Mises Wire

As we celebrate the Centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, we look at his commentary on the American Revolution, where it promoted liberty and where the creation of the Constitution became liberty’s roadblock. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-and-american-revolution

The current US conflict with Iran has its roots in the CIA-backed coup in 1953, which removed a democratically-elected prime minister and replaced him with the Shah. The Shah’s government ultimately collapsed, leading to the current Islamic republic. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/operation-ajax-1953-cias-template-and-warnings-today

It has been 20 years since the Duke Lacrosse Case dominated the news media. It was a story in which false narratives of guilt pushed by corrupt police and prosecutors, radical members of Duke’s faculty, and the legacy media nearly railroaded three innocent men into prison. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/duke-lacrosse-case-exposed-rot-higher-education-media-and-justice-system

Those who believe in the free and unhampered market economy should be especially skeptical of war and military action. War, after all, is the ultimate government program. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-and-war

The current war is a timely reminder that the US ruling elites regard the US taxpayers and ordinary Americans as little more than inconvenient afterthoughts in US foreign policy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/iran-war-exposes-farce-american-representative-democracy

Into the heart of the peasant and nomadic Arab world of the Middle East there came, on the backs and on the bayonets of British imperialism, a largely European colonizing people. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/war-guilt-middle-east

Are we emphasizing “the negative”? In a sense, yes, but what else are we to stress when our values, our principles, our very being are under attack from a relentless foe? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fight-liberty-and-beltway-barbarians

When the Massachusetts colony issued its own unredeemable paper money in 1690, it was with the promise that it would soon be redeemable in specie. Like all paper money issued by government, it lost value and the confidence of the people. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/massachusetts-1690-first-western-fiat-experiment

We are told that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of our freedom, yet this same Bill of Rights ultimately has been used as a weapon against state sovereignty and against our individual rights. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bill-rights-against-states

The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend having national borders in the first place? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/defense-national-borders

Human action involves people engaging in unique events in which outcomes often are uncertain, when expertise and planning often do not give us the results we anticipate. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-act-world-uncertainty-not-probabilities

In a truly free market, there is no class conflict. In the presence of the state, however, things are different because various groups jockey with each other to gain the favor of state agents. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/class-conflict-jacksonians-and-exploitation

The rise of the grooming gangs in Great Britain and the refusal of Britain’s Labor government to intervene speaks volumes about the contempt that British political elites have for their laws and the people who must live under a regime of anarcho-tyranny. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-tyranny-and-uk-grooming-gangs-scandal

Governments at all levels abuse their “privilege” of eminent domain, the taking of private property for government use. Murray Rothbard understood that government was not justified to seize property for such use in the first place. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-and-eminent-domain-confused-history-and-legal-sleight-hand

Before Murray Rothbard, there was Albert Jay Nock laying intellectual broadsides against the tyranny of the state. While Nock (unlike Rothbard) never called for total abolishment of the state, he did want as minimal a state as could be had. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nocks-war-state

AI is not the killer—it is the coroner. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/end-artificial-employment

Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the federal government—not just slave states—had implemented legal protections of slavery by policy for decades. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/antebellum-federal-protections-slavery

Few Americans today realize that until the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913, US senators were appointed by their state legislatures, not by popular vote. This development had an unfortunate effect upon US politics, further damaging the original federalist governing arrangement. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/senate-and-loss-mixed-government

Even though Cuba poses no threat to the U.S., the Trump administration continues its criminal policies of sanctions and other restrictions in an attempt to foist "regime change" on the country. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-actions-toward-cuba-are-criminal

The story of Anil Ambani destroys the belief that capitalism automatically favors the rich and excludes the poor. Once a billionaire, he made a series of bad business choices and the market punished those choices. Capitalism favors good choices. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/surviving-capitalism-scarcity-advantage

The American empire—with its global military footprint and permanent war economy—cannot be financed through honest taxation without provoking revolt. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/monetary-decay-and-imperial-survival

Ludwig von Mises’s first major work was The Theory of Money and Credit in which he explained the role of money in the economy and also pointed out what causes the boom-bust cycle. It remains an important classic in Austrian economics. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-misess-theory-money-and-credit-still-important-today

The Civil Rights Act, first passed in 1964, is falsely connected with freedom. In reality, this law severely restricts individual liberty and replaces it with coercive government acts. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-we-should-repeal-civil-rights-act

From the Jacksonians to the Marxists, political theorists have understood that there is something unique about "small industry" between big business and propertyless workers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/brief-history-petite-bourgeoisie

If one man may legally own another, then he should likewise have the right to disown this property. To deny this right by law involves simultaneously affirming the right of one human to own another as his property but not the right to stop owning another human. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/olaudah-equianos-manumission-regulatory-barriers-freedom