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The Democrats are performing an autopsy of their 2024 electoral failures, but without mentioning Biden, the Harris campaign, their alienation of certain demographics, or their polarizing positions.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/democrats-are-making-costly-unserious-attempt-find-out-why-they-lost

The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence. Rather, the answer lies in peaceful separation.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/secession-inevitable-war-prevent-it-optional

Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/i-mises-university

Michael F. Cannon and Neal McCluskey let us listen in on their ongoing 20-year debate over who has the more difficult job -- fixing health care or education. McCluskey argues that government's monopolistic control over K-12 education and compulsory schooling creates a more fundamental threat to freedom, while Cannon contends that health care is even more dysfunctional due to cascading government interventions that have created the world's most expensive and gap-ridden health system. Both scholars explore how government subsidies drive up costs in their respective sectors and outline their visions for more libertarian, market-based alternatives.

Show Notes:

https://www.cato.org/free-society/summer-2025/federal-failure-parental-freedom-story-movement 

 

https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-court-right-reading-opt-outs-thats-not-enough

 

https://www.cato.org/blog/top-5-reasons-end-us-department-education

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Is Austrian Economics compatible with modern sociology, which is presently dominated by collectivists? However, it is possible to apply praxeology to sociology analysis, and that is where one begins to approach this discipline in a manner that promotes liberty.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rethinking-sociology-mises-new-austro-libertarian-framework-understanding-society

The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the twentieth century.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/silent-guardian-liberty-hans-f-sennholz-and-seed-mises-america

Despite presidential saber rattling and huge tariff threats, the U.S. stock market keeps reaching record highs. Why?

Today we sit down with the man who coined the acronym TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) and chew through several hypotheses. (Over tacos, of course.)

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