Federal Judges Are Waging War on the Fourth Amendment
Blog08/08/2019Chris Calton
Federal judges have served as loyal foot soldiers for police who enthusiastically use every trick in the book to violate and nullify the Bill of Rights.
Facebook's Fake Money
Money and BanksMoney and Banking
Blog07/18/2019Thorsten Polleit
The critical question is this: Is the Libra really good — or sound — money? Unfortunately, this question cannot be answered in the affirmative.
Free Trade vs. Government Diktat
Blog07/17/2019Jacob G. Hornberger
In every trade, a person is giving up something he values less for something he values more. Every time a shopper buys any item from another person, he has improved his standard of living, and so has the seller.
Farm Subsidies Are Corporate Welfare — And They Cost Us Plenty
Blog07/11/2019Paul Boyce
Farm subsidies encourage farmers to be inefficient and wasteful. Moreover, subsidies mostly benefit large farms and landowners, and not the "small family farms" we're told the subsidies protect.
Fewer than Half of Violent Crimes Are Solved in America
Legal SystemU.S. History
Fewer than half the homicides in the US end with a conviction in court. The rate for other violent crimes is even worse. Meanwhile, 80 percent of arrests are for petty offenses.
Fascism Has Always Been An Enemy of Private Property
Blog06/01/2019Allen Gindler
Italian fascism and German national socialism were committed to abolishing private property in practice, if not in name.
Florida's New Teacher Carry Law is a Decent First Step
When it comes to school safety, a good place to start is by allowing local jurisdictions to reassert local control in their own communities.
French Incomes Place Below Some of America's Poorest States — And the Protesters Know It
France has a lower income than 49 US states, which may shed some light on why protests continue all these weeks later.
Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and the book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of...