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Audio Mises Wire
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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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Foucault, Panopticism and the Carceral Society; the Rise of the Surveillance State
Jul 1500:08:06Tap to summarizeThe standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things are useful tools for a state that wishes to dominate its citizens.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state
Transcribe →America’s Gerontocracy Goes Deeper than Aging Politicians
Jul 1500:09:53Tap to summarizeAmerica’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger Americans to a caste of older, wealthier generations.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians
Transcribe →What the Conservatives Get Wrong about the French Revolution
Jul 1500:22:44Tap to summarizeIf avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and his conservative followers don't offer this. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution
Transcribe →The UK’s Monstrous Equality Act
Jul 1400:10:18Tap to summarizeGreat Britain’s “Equality Act” is not simply a civil rights bill gone too far. It is, as Murray Rothbard would have put it, a “monstrous” piece of legislation that looks to create a social and economic equality that could never exist.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act
Transcribe →Poland: For Now It’s Still a Paper Tiger
Jul 1400:11:38Tap to summarizeSince abandoning socialism 30 years ago, Poland’s economy has grown, as one would expect with a market economy. However, there could be more economic freedom there that easily would translate into a booming economy.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/poland-now-its-still-paper-tiger
Transcribe →An Austrian Perspective on Lolcows
Jul 1400:12:12Tap to summarizeLolcows, part of the world of internet personalities, would seem well beyond the world of economic analysis. Yet, much of what happens can be explained by the paradigm of Austrian economics.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows
Transcribe →Fireworks for the Regime: What July 4th Actually Celebrates
Jul 900:11:13Tap to summarizeEvery July 4th, politicians climb podiums, flags wave, a hundred million dollars’ worth of fireworks scatter across the sky, and somewhere between the hot dogs and the stadium-rock anthems, it becomes easy to confuse the theater of freedom with the substance of it.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fireworks-regime-what-july-4th-actually-celebrates
Transcribe →The Senate Isn’t His Oyster, After All. Graham Platner’s Socialist Vessel Turned Out to Be Leaky
Jul 900:15:44Tap to summarizeThe media tells us that the rape allegations that brought down Graham Platner’s Senate campaign just came to light. Actually, the media had those allegations for months, but sat on them to protect Platner’s campaign.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/senate-isnt-his-oyster-after-all-graham-platners-socialist-vessel-turned-out-be-leaky
Transcribe →The War System
Jul 901:43:56Tap to summarize"The main aim of American foreign policy is to impose the will of our ruling elite on the rest of the world." Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/war-system
Transcribe →Why Rothbard Sided with the American Revolutionaries
Jul 700:16:50Tap to summarizeContrary to a common—and incorrect—critique of Rothbard, he was not a fanciful purist who refused to support any political movement that failed to be perfectly libertarian in every way. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-rothbard-sided-american-revolutionaries
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