Mises Daily Email

Monday, January 19, 2026

If the Covid Panic taught us anything, it’s that government control of “the science” has corrupted scientific institutions and the people who run them. This is what Rothbard predicted. In this regard, science is like everything else government intervention has ruined.

Also, as we celebrate 250 years of the Declaration of Independence, we remember that the United States was founded as a league of separate (and very different) polities, not as the monstrous homogeneous state it has become.

Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief

The Bureaucratization of Science Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Thiago V. S. Coelho

As Murray Rothbard warned decades ago, government-sponsored science is simply an extension of the bureaucracy used by the regime to force its policies on others. This is not an accident or anomaly; it is how government works.

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Revenge of the Skyscraper Curse

With a record-height tower and a flooded credit system, 2026 may be when the curse returns.

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A Closer Look
at John C. Calhoun

When it comes to the great political economist John C. Calhoun, most people love him or hate him.

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Announcing a Special Issue of the QJAE

The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics invites submissions for a special issue.

Without Government-Subsidized Industries, Employment Growth Would be Negative

The BLS released new December employment numbers last week.

New Additions to the Leveller Anthologies at the David M. Hart Archives

Hart continues to build new archives of important documents from the history of liberalism.

The United States v. Jerome Powell

Tho, Ryan, and Connor discuss the reported probe into the Fed Chair.

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The Misesian

The latest issue of The Misesian discusses why, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.