Printing Power: The Central Bank and the State
Ready and generous deficit financing is key to state power. This Read More Article from Mises Institute
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DEI Still Has An Anti-Semitism Problem
In the wake of October 7, college students across the country responded by praising the resistance against settler colonialism. These elites accused Jewish people of being Zionist oppressors. And leading thinkers justified acts of violence against Jewish students as a proportional response to “genocide” in Gaza. Should any of these reactions have been surprising? No. […]
Nock’s Enemy, the State
There are two ways in which people in Read More Article from Mises Institute
Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference 2025
This June, the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center and the Duke Center for Firearms Law will host their seventh annual joint Works-in-Progress Conference. These two Centers are the only firearms law/policy centers in the United States that are open to and that publish papers from diverse viewpoints. I am a Senior Fellow at the […]
The Misesian, vol. 1, no. 6, 2024
Another national election has come and gon Read More Article from Mises Institute
Brianna Wu and TafTaj: How Have Trans Issues Scrambled Our Politics?
About 0.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as transgender, according to a 2022 UCLA study. Among 13- to 17-year-olds, the figure has grown to about 1.4 percent. That uptick in the youth might help explain why trans issues are playing a growing role in American politics. Registered voters told Gallup pollsters that transgender issues ranked […]
Silencers Aren’t “Arms” Protected by Second Amendment, Fourth Circuit Holds
From U.S. v. Saleem, decided today by Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson, Steven Agee, and Allison Rushing: The Supreme Court in Heller defined “arms” as “any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another.” Therefore, “the Second Amendment extends … to […]
Economists and the State: From Enemies to Friends
The state and its friends re Read More Article from Mises Institute
Congress Passes Legislation to Create Needed Judgeships, but Biden May Veto
The Judicial Conference has called for the creation of additional judgeships — primarily district court seats in parts of the country plagued by judicial backlogs. The Federal Bar Association has joined the call for more judgeships, and endorsed the JUDGES Act, which would authorize 66 new district court judgeships over the next decade, staggered so […]
The Bailout Fallacy
Ruchir Sharma, a non-Austrian, gets it right. He lends strong suppo Read More Article from Mises Institute
DEI Still Has An Anti-Semitism Problem
In the wake of October 7, college students across the country responded by praising the resistance against settler colonialism. These elites accused Jewish people of being Zionist oppressors. And leading thinkers justified acts of violence against Jewish students as a proportional response to “genocide” in Gaza. Should any of these reactions have been surprising? No. […]
Nock’s Enemy, the State
There are two ways in which people in Read More Article from Mises Institute
Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference 2025
This June, the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center and the Duke Center for Firearms Law will host their seventh annual joint Works-in-Progress Conference. These two Centers are the only firearms law/policy centers in the United States that are open to and that publish papers from diverse viewpoints. I am a Senior Fellow at the […]
The Misesian, vol. 1, no. 6, 2024
Another national election has come and gon Read More Article from Mises Institute
Brianna Wu and TafTaj: How Have Trans Issues Scrambled Our Politics?
About 0.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as transgender, according to a 2022 UCLA study. Among 13- to 17-year-olds, the figure has grown to about 1.4 percent. That uptick in the youth might help explain why trans issues are playing a growing role in American politics. Registered voters told Gallup pollsters that transgender issues ranked […]
Silencers Aren’t “Arms” Protected by Second Amendment, Fourth Circuit Holds
From U.S. v. Saleem, decided today by Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson, Steven Agee, and Allison Rushing: The Supreme Court in Heller defined “arms” as “any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another.” Therefore, “the Second Amendment extends … to […]
Economists and the State: From Enemies to Friends
The state and its friends re Read More Article from Mises Institute
Congress Passes Legislation to Create Needed Judgeships, but Biden May Veto
The Judicial Conference has called for the creation of additional judgeships — primarily district court seats in parts of the country plagued by judicial backlogs. The Federal Bar Association has joined the call for more judgeships, and endorsed the JUDGES Act, which would authorize 66 new district court judgeships over the next decade, staggered so […]
The Bailout Fallacy
Ruchir Sharma, a non-Austrian, gets it right. He lends strong suppo Read More Article from Mises Institute