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Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way of creating the "just" society.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspectives-social-justice

The long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr. is hardly worth the wait of thirty years. David Brady, Jr., reviews it, saving our readers the pain of reading themselves.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/tanenhaus-and-god-buckley

While Hayek did not write directly about the American Civil War, some of his writings provide insights on the conflict.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/jefferson-davis-von-hayek

While it is true that colonial era governments sometimes burned paper money after receiving it in the form of taxation, why they burned the money is for reasons other than what MMT advocates are claiming. In the end, the MMT promoters are telling a false history.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-governments-burned-money

Rothbard took the American Revolution to be mainly libertarian in its inspiration, but he contends that the libertarian impulses of the Revolution were betrayed by a centralizing coup d’état.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-constitution-was-coup-detat

Not only are modern monetary theory (MMT) cultists dishonest about the role of money, they also are dishonest about money‘s history. By taking issue with Carl Menger‘s historical version, they expose their own ignorance of how money came about.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-wrong-about-history-origins-money

We like to think of the “deep state” as a conspiratorial entity. In reality, the term describes much of what the federal government does in broad daylight.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-virginia-there-deep-state-and-it-worse-you-think

Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal. From railroad subsidies to a national banking system, Lincoln paved the way to the Progressive Era and beyond.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/lincolns-new-deal

EU Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has declared that anything that might lead to private currencies must be stopped. Yet, as F.A. Hayek noted, one way to confound central banks is through private currencies.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/christine-lagarde-and-privatization-currency

America recently celebrated Independence Day, but Americans were too quick to abandon their own individual freedoms and individual sovereignty and submit to the state.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/life-source-missing-todays-narratives