From Reconstruction to George Floyd, the left‘s guilt industry has run at full speed. As Murray Rothbard wrote, it is time to stand up to those that use guilt as a social weapon.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/politics-guilt
Audio Mises Wire - Free Markets Promote Peaceful Cooperation and Racial Harmony
By their nature, free markets promote harmony between people and increase overall standards of living. This view is radically different from the ones promoted by Marxists who believe that only “class interests” matter.
Original article: Free Markets Promote Peaceful Cooperation and Racial Harmony
Audio Mises Wire - Marxism and the Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution continues apace in this country and it is aimed at all of the old Confederate symbols from statues to the Confederate Battle Flag. With leftist progressives there can be no discussion. Any symbol from the South equates to racism and nothing else.
Original article: Marxism and the Cultural Revolution
Audio Mises Wire - Dred Scott, Politics, and the “Living” Constitution
Some legal “experts” are claiming that the Supreme Court‘s infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision is still used in current law. That, of course, is nonsense. In fact, soon after its passage, many northern states essentially nullified “Scott” at the state level.
Original article: Dred Scott, Politics, and the “Living” Constitution
Audio Mises Wire - Critical Race Theory and Racial Polylogism
Long before the term "Critical Race Theory" was coined, Ludwig von Mises already was critiquing what he called "racial polylogism," which claims that what passes for truth depends upon racial identity. While people might hold different perspectives, truth still is truth.
Original article: Critical Race Theory and Racial Polylogism
Audio Mises Wire - De-Bamboozling the Critical Race Theory of Court Intellectuals
There finally is pushback against Critical Race Theory that has infected higher education and most of our other institutions. Unfortunately, CRT concepts are so embedded in our body politic that the only way to combat them is through revisionist history.
Original article: De-Bamboozling the Critical Race Theory of Court Intellectuals
Audio Mises Wire - Federal Power and Statist Racecraft
In the post-Civil War South during Reconstruction, federal troops attempted to impose their will in part by pitting recently-freed slaves against southern whites. The outcome was obvious, leading to more than a century of violent racial clashes, all the while strengthening federal power.
Original article: Federal Power and Statist Racecraft
Audio Mises Wire - North and South in Antiracist Revisionism
Modern “antiracist” historians have pursued the myth that the virtuous North engaged in warfare with the South in order to free slaves and end chattel slavery. The historical record, however, tells a much different story.
Original article: North and South in Antiracist Revisionism
Audio Mises Wire - Disparate Impact Is a Legal Trick
By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be rectified by state-directed outcomes. However, government programs have made things much worse.
Original article: Disparate Impact Is a Legal Trick
Audio Mises Wire - Post-Election Prospects for Ending DEI
With the demise of the Biden administration, it is time to take a hard look at the DEI programs it imposed. While divisive, simple removal will not solve underlying problems.
Original article: Post-Election Prospects for Ending DEI