Austrian Economics, Gold, and the Fed’s Confidence Game
Mark Thornton explains why Austrian economics matters, and why gold, debt, the Fed, and the dollar all point back to ...
The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment
The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution ...
Regulation: Protecting Incumbents and Suppressing Competition
Politicians sell business regulation as benefiting consumers. In reality, as we saw from airline regulation, the system creates cartels that ...
Sixty Years of Steel Tariffs Haven’t Worked. More Won’t Either
Clark Packard (Getty Images) Writing in the fall issue of American Affairs, Rep. Riley Moore (R‑WV) argues that American deindustrialization ...
Can Presidents Exempt People from US Law?
David J. Bier After the Supreme Court struck down his first order restricting birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, President ...
Launched in Pakistan: Why, As a Muslim, I Defend Liberty
Mustafa Akyol Why, As a Muslim, I Defend Liberty is a little big book I wrote in 2021 for Libertarianism.org, ...
What Is Muslim Liberalism? A Discussion in Pakistan
Mustafa Akyol On July 23, Khurshid Ahmed Nadeem, a prominent Pakistani intellectual, devoted his column in Dunya News, a national ...
Friday Feature: MARS Microschool
Colleen Hroncich It feels like we’re going back to the future today. Two years ago, I profiled Log Cabin Schoolhouse, ...
Did Trump’s Tariffs Cause the Recent US Manufacturing Surge? Six Charts Say Otherwise
Scott Lincicome (Getty Images) The US manufacturing sector has been on a nice run in 2026, and some Trump administration ...
Patrick Newman on the Rise of the Corporatist State
Dr. Patrick Newman speaks to Bob about his new book, which reviews how big business built the regulatory state, the ...
