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Monday, February 9, 2026
 
 

There are good reasons why the freedom fighters of the past wanted things like the rule of law and decentralization of power. Yet, today, the American Right has largely degenerated into declarations of “might makes right” and “the ends justify the means.”

Ryan McMaken, Editor in Chief

 
 
Trump, Immigration, and ICE
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump’s rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.
 
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Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work
Jenny Joy Schumann
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.
 
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The Giffen Good
 
Mark Thornton explains why recent surges in silver demand amid rapidly rising prices don’t overturn the law of demand.
 
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Is Bitcoin Fiat Money?
 
Bob Murphy applies Ludwig von Mises’s monetary framework to Bitcoin.
 
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