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Audio recordings of Mises Wire articles, offering contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.
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28 August 2026
Nationality: You Belong to the State
There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state
27 August 2026
Three Reasons Why the French Revolution Was So Different from the American Revolution
In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution
26 August 2026
The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment
California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment
25 August 2026
The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment
The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment
25 August 2026
The Importance of Teleology in Understanding Economic Inequality
As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality
25 August 2026
Rothbard vs. the Conservatives on the American and French Revolutions
Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions
21 August 2026
Why the French Revolution Was Not a Libertarian Revolution
A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution
20 August 2026
Jason Arday and the DEI System that Just Won't Die
After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jason-arday-and-dei-system-just-wont-die
18 August 2026
The Seen and the Unseen Cost of a Government Grocery Discount
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-government-grocery-discount
18 August 2026
The Innovation Mirage: Why DeepSeek and Kimi 3 Do Not Settle the Question of Chinese Technological Supremacy
There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy