F.H. Buckley, a Canadian lawyer, political philosopher, and economist who now teaches at the Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, has written a book that challenges conventional wisdom and is all the better for that. America, he tells us, is so bitterly divided that we should consider breaking it up into several separate countries. To
TOM WOODS: This is the Tom Woods Show , and today I welcome Jeff Deist. Everybody wants to know the sheer nuts and bolts of how somebody becomes Ron Paul’s chief of staff. I’ll tell a little story most people don’t know. About ten years ago, Dr. Paul was approached about doing an autobiography; he would have gotten a huge advance. There was big
[ Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide. By Jonathan Rodden. Basic Books, 2019. 313 pages.] Jonathan Rodden is unhappy. In American elections, Democrats often receive a larger number of votes than their Republican rivals, but they nevertheless frequently fail to win elections. “In most democracies, the path to
[This interview with Jeff Deist and Hans Hoppe will appear in the upcoming issue of The Austrian (March–April 2020).] JEFF DEIST: Your recent talk in Vienna mentioned growing up happy but poor, the son of East German parents who had been driven west during the Cold War by the Soviets. Can you elaborate on the lasting impact their experience had on
Dave Smith is a New York–based stand-up comedian, radio personality, and political commentator. Dave can be seen regularly on The Greg Gutfeld Show and Red Eye on Fox News, as well as Kennedy on Fox Business Network. In 2013 Dave was featured as one of the “New Faces” at the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He was also a
The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return by Michael Anton Regnery Publishing, 2020 441 pages Michael Anton is best known to the public through his essay “The Flight 93 Election,” published in 2016 under a pseudonym in the Claremont Review of Books . It warned of the dire consequences if Hillary Clinton were elected. Anton, an authority on
It is in a time of crisis where the leviathan state has the greatest opportunity to grow. The global coronavirus pandemic has given cover to governments around the world to give into totalitarian instincts and implement authoritarian policies against their people. It is in times like this when an uncompromising defense of liberty and markets is
Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World By Branko Milanovic Harvard University Press, 2019 287 pages At first, one might be tempted to toss this book aside. Milanovic, who used to be lead economist at the World Bank’s research department, is a specialist in global inequality. He esteems the work of Thomas Piketty. He spends
Amity Shlaes is chairman of the board of trustees of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, she is a classical liberal, and she knows economics. She much appreciates Mises’s emphasis on property and bureaucracy, both of which influence her work. She has authored six books, including three New York Times bestsellers, on Calvin Coolidge, the
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy By Stephanie Kelton New York, 2020 325 pages Stephanie Kelton’s new book has attracted much attention, and Bob Murphy and Jeff Deist have already reviewed it, with devastating results. Why another review? The policies proposed in the book are so pernicious that
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.