For decades, the most powerful institutions, from academia to the corporate press, have made a concerted effort to marginalize the wisdom of Austrian economics. Their control is breaking.

For decades, the most powerful institutions, from academia to the corporate press, have made a concerted effort to marginalize the wisdom of Austrian economics. Their control is breaking.

Today these reasons or very similar ones are used by opponents of a different form of abolitionism: the proposal that government as we know it — monopolistic, individually nonconsensual rule by an armed group that demands obedience and payment of taxes — be abolished.

The abolition of chattel slavery was a great advancement for human liberty. But many of those celebrating Juneteenth today still accept the core assumptions that underlie slavery.

With the world moving more and more in the direction of trade protectionism and war, it is worth remembering the origin of the fallacies upon which this movement is based.