Mises Daily

Should skydiving and other risky practices be permitted or banned? Tibor Machan argues that only market exchange on private property provides a coherent answer. 

The real meaning of Thanksgiving: Plymouth was a socialist colony and it failed miserably.

A scheme heralded by the political elite turns out to be an economic fiasco everywhere it has been tried, argues Jeffrey Tucker.

Does Alan Greenspan have a theory or is he just winging it? (Commentary by James Grant) 

Timothy Terrell, reviewing an important new book,  examines a central theoretical flaw behind the attack on Microsoft.

Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can't be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
 

In an interview with Mises.org, a leading German classical liberal explains how the government botched unification.

Hollywood's violent, anti-capitalist attack on every industry but the one that makes films. (Review by Thomas Kelly) 

The most conspicious and odious symbol of socialist tyranny came down ten years ago. (Reflections by Tibor R. Machan)

An interview with economist Frank Shostak, as published in the Austrian Economics Newsletter, now available on-line.