The recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/defeat-thomas-massie-where-go-here See also "Post-Massie America" (Power & Market Podcast) at https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/post-massie-america, and "Massie Defeated in Kentucky Primary" by Ryan McMaken at https://mises.org/power-market/massie-defeated-kentucky-primary

Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later nationalist understanding backward onto the founding era. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/creating-nation-declaration-independence-and-nation-anachronism

In contemplating the life and career of Ludwig von Mises, one is struck by the nobility and grandeur, the high courage, of his lonely and lifelong struggle on behalf of truth and laissez-faire. But what led Mises to pursue his lonely and seemingly doomed struggle until the very end? Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/mises-and-role-economist-public-policy

The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/there-no-reprieve-feds-war-savings

What inspires us about the life of Mises, writes Lew Rockwell, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/heart-fighter

In attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct: progressivism has brought one disaster after another, all the while empowering the worst of state actors. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/justice-clarence-thomas-right-about-progressivism

For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-owns-airwaves-and-sea

Ryan McMaken points out that the American “great experiment” failed many decades ago. In fact, the current republic we call “the United States” is clearly a completely different republic than the one founded back in the late eighteenth century. The founding fathers wouldn’t recognize it at all. Be sure to follow the Loot and Lobby podcast at Mises.org/LL

As I see it now, there are really two economies—two distinct systems of producing and exchanging wealth. Or rather, two systems that purport to do these things, though only one of them really produces anything, and the other is organized by a peculiar form of exchange. The first is what is called the trade economy—the one summed up in the phrase “the free market.” The other might be called “the tax economy.” Original article: https://mises.org/free-market/two-economies

Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state itself depends upon prior production for every resource it possesses. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/public-goods-circular-argument