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Aug 7, 2025 • 0sec

The European Miracle: How Contractual Politics and Divided Power Gave Birth to Western Prosperity

How did Europe move from a collection of impoverished city states and kingdoms to a prosperous state of affairs? Europeans learned the value of contracts, private property, and the limited power of the state, and in turn, they flourished.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/european-miracle-how-contractual-politics-and-divided-power-gave-birth-western-prosperity
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Aug 7, 2025 • 0sec

Can the BRICS Nations Lead Us to a Better World?

There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/can-brics-nations-lead-us-better-world
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Aug 7, 2025 • 0sec

Scholars and Schemers: How the Left Ruined Higher Education

One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call to bring about socialism in the West by eroding the institutional barriers against it.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholars-and-schemers-how-left-ruined-higher-education
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Aug 6, 2025 • 0sec

The Threats of AI Come from the State

Artificial Intelligence is advancing, but people often fear it for the wrong reasons. AI is not a threat in itself, but rather becomes a threat when the state uses it as one more tool to limit individual liberty and to engage in oppressive behavior.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/threats-ai-come-state
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America’s War on Arab Christians

The recent attack by Israeli setters on the village of Taybeh in the West Bank has brought attention to the conflicts between Israel and the Christian population in Palestine. American Christians who uncritically support Israel should take a harder look at what is happening.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-war-arab-christians
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Aug 6, 2025 • 0sec

Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/harry-truman-and-atomic-bomb
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Aug 6, 2025 • 0sec

Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/cold-war-20-heats
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No Matter Who Is President, Don't Trust Government Data

Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-matter-who-president-dont-trust-government-data
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Aug 5, 2025 • 0sec

Anarcho-Capitalism: The Nine Most Important Objections

"Anarcho-Capitalism is good in theory, but it would never work in the real world." That is a common objection to A-C, but is it correct? What are the objections and how do we answer them. Stanisław Wójtowicz provides some answers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-capitalism-nine-most-important-objections
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Aug 5, 2025 • 0sec

From Bad to Worse, Irish Rent Control

Apparently, Ireland's government has not learned any lessons from rent control disasters elsewhere. Thus, the Irish will have to learn this hard lesson and face the consequences of their economic folly.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bad-worse-irish-rent-control

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