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The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy
5+ hour, 56+ min ago (150+ words) The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the law on numerous occasions. Here is a small sampling of the lies they told.Original article:…...
Launching a War on Iran Was No Act of Courage
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (949+ words) After Trump ordered this major joint US-Israeli air campaign on Iran a week and a half ago, several politicians, political commentators, and public figures heaped praise on the president for the "remarkable courage" he showed to finally take on the…...
White House tells House Republicans to stop talking about mass deportations
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (123+ words) Trump had betrayed his base on everything else. Why not also mass deportations?" The question of who owns the Middle East is ongoing and will never be resolved, not in the current political climate. John Maynard Keynes's General Theory was…...
It All Began with Roger Garrison
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (372+ words) I must have told a thousand people that the reason I came to Auburn, Alabama, was Roger Garrison and every time I did, I gave a silent thank you to him for being the crucial pivot point in my life....
Rothbard’s Defense of Border Control
2+ day, 18+ min ago (1494+ words) In his article "Nations by Consent," Murray Rothbard reiterated his argument that individual liberty does not envisage atomistic human beings isolated from the societies in which they live: He was writing in 1993, not too long after the collapse of the…...
Help Us Keep Murray Rothbard’s Legacy Alive
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (578+ words) Help us keep alive Murray Rothbard's legacy. To further celebrate Rothbard's birthday, in May, the Institute will host its first ever Rothbard University, a three-day event in the style of Mises University that will be open to everyone. Think of…...
Molinari on Secession, Monopoly, and "Freedom of Government"
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (382+ words) [From Part IV, Chapter XV of The Natural Laws of Political Economy (Les lois naturelles de l'conomie politique), first published in 1887.] Let us therefore try to investigate what would happen if political servitude were to be abolished, if "freedom of…...
Why AI and Big Data Cannot Plan an Economy
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (760+ words) Contemporary academia's equation of "science" with "measurement" represents a positivist assault on Ludwig von Mises's praxeology, not due to his mathematical deficiency, but his superior ontological grasp. While physics successfully models inanimate bodies'where a copper atom reacts to heat according…...
How can the US avoid National Bankruptcy?
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (390+ words) The national debt is approaching $40 trillion. The size of the national debt raises several pertinent questions. At what point will growth in the national debt cause a financial crisis and national bankruptcy? How can such a crisis be averted? Can…...
The Cost of “Free”
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (684+ words) In a free market, every individual has their own subjective value, and are able to decide what they are willing to trade for each and every additional unit of a good. When these individual decisions are aggregated together across thousands…...