Mises Institute
Thursday, August 28, 2025
 
 
Federal Land Ownership Hampers Native Prosperity
Lipton Matthews
American Indian reservations have some of the worst poverty rates in the nation, which increases calls for even more federal government intervention. However, it is the intervention itself that is creating the poverty in the first place.
 
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Murray Rothbard on the US Embargo on Cuba
Birsen Filip
The US Cuban embargo continues, to the detriment of both countries. Not surprisingly, Murray Rothbard had strong opinions on the embargo, as he believed that US policies not only were self-defeating, but were outright harmful.
 
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Parasitism and the Origin of the State
 

Hoppe traces the state’s origin to a predatory monopoly upheld by ideology and taxation.

 
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America’s Prison Population Bomb
 
Chris Calton explains the legislation and police operations that led to America having the world’s largest prison population.
 
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Gerrymandering and Representative Democracy
Gerrymandering is a symptom of the failure of representative democracy.
 
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Cuba: The Dictatorship and the “Blockade” Lie
All the propaganda that whitewashes the Cuban dictatorship is based on two key lies.
 
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How “Squatter Democracy” Created America’s First Welfare Program
After 1820, politicians gained voter loyalty by offering cheap land to propertyless squatters.
 
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The Real Problem with Trump’s Intel Deal
 
Trump’s Intel deal is corporate welfare with a national-security label.
 
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Hayek for the 21st Century—Our New 100,000 Book Giveaway
 
Hayek for the 21st Century is a primer for the layperson, introducing a new generation of readers to Hayek’s writings and hopefully avoiding the 20th century’s mistakes in the 21st century.
 
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