Mises Institute

Contrary to the myth that kings routinely ruled over cowed subordinates by "divine right" in the Middle Ages, civil governments of the period faced countless institutional obstacles to the exercise of power.

The US government coverup of the origins on the covid virus that hit the world in 2020 was bad enough, but now we know that the CIA itself was involved.

If a property owner, or someone acting under the owner’s authority, deploys physical force to remove an intruder from the premises, does that use of force by the owner against the intruder give the intruder a right to “self-defense”?

The current free-for-all in Division I NCAA sports is not the product of a free market, but rather is chaos being imposed by the courts and government agencies.

The contemporary school system operates as a direct administrative descendant of the nineteenth-century Prussian factory model.

Domestic opposition to a government’s war is almost always seen as seditious—even if the criticisms are right. Whether it was war pursued by Abraham Lincoln or our modern wars of aggression, the attacks on the war critics are always the same.

Reactions to the latest jobs report focused on the unexpectedly large increase in total employment. There was a large increase in private employment over the

Does a recession loom in our future? Given the irresponsibility of the government’s economic policies, the short answer has to be “yes.”

One must ask the decisive question: if fiat money is genuinely superior, why would coercion be required to impose it upon those who would supposedly benefit from its existence?

As AI continues to grow, we are told to fear private transactions and to depend on the state for safety and security. The reality is that we need to fear the state and what it will do to us as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.

As Hayek noted, civilizations do not arise from political decrees, nor are they the simple product of culture. The costs of transacting exchanges also play an important role.