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It's not enough for an ideology to merely have a "good argument." Historical conditions must also combine to delegitimize the regime and its institutions.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/battle-ideas-paves-way-radicals-and-revolutionaries

As the US is involved in yet another pointless war, we would do well to remember the real costs of war, how it strips us of our liberties, and destroys our futures. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/remembering-costs-war

The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/ft-knox-full-impure-gold-unfit-international-transactions

The UK does not have an energy problem, it has a freedom problem. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/freedom-upsets-patterns-deregulation-argument-westminster-will-not-have

Luck egalitarians fallaciously declare property and wealth to be illegitimate or at least suspect due to a mysterious, unquantifiable force called luck. Their arguments fail even if what they claim about luck is true. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/luck-fallacy-and-luck-egalitarianism

The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called "American experiment"—was swept away long ago. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-are-living-fourth-american-republic

The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our lives where government should stay out, it is in the area of childbirth. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/tragedy-socialized-fertility

The Trump administration’s downsizing USAID has brought the usual claims: that without US aid, millions of poor people around the world will die of starvation and disease. Not surprisingly, the claims are exaggerated. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/usaid-funded-aid-programs-abroad-mainly-was-jobs-program-progressives

There are fuel protests in Ireland, which are not surprising given the havoc Trump’s Iran war has caused in oil markets. They also should be protesting against the government policies that make the situation worse. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fuel-protests-ireland-their-lights-and-shadows

Despite support from some economists in the free market camp, fractional reserve free banking is doomed for failure, as Murray Rothbard pointed out. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/case-against-free-bankers

"There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom." Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was

The right of self-determination is the right of the inhabitants of every territory to decide on the state to which they wish to belong. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/right-self-determination

Under a system of private ownership, in which the government's only function is to protect property rights, it is immaterial where the frontiers of people's country are drawn. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/economic-causes-war

While there is a public uproar about China having access to the work of American scientists, there is a bigger issue at stake: Is science “owned” by “the public”? If not, why are we so worried about the Chinese? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/if-science-public-good-let-china-pay-it

Whether rates go up or down, neither outcome will be pleasant, leaving a bondholder caught between the Unthinkable and the Unimaginable. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/those-big-beautiful-bonds

We are told that it takes “eternal vigilance” to protect our freedom. But what if the entity taking away our freedom has the weapons and the “law” on its side? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/problem-eternal-vigilance

We are reminded time and again that prices emerge from subjective valuation, not objective criteria. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-chicken-isnt-just-chicken

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

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

Had the United States pursued a policy of economic freedom with respect to energy production over the last thirty years, the conditions for OPEC’s success as a cartel would never have been present in the first place. Original article (September 18, 2001): https://mises.org/mises-daily/free-markets-would-be-opecs-undoing