Mises Institute
Thursday, December 18, 2025
 
 

You may have noticed that the media elites don’t talk about climate change nearly as much as they used to. It’s hard to guess the exact reason, but climate change has always really been about increasing government power. Perhaps the regime has found a new freedom-destroying narrative to replace climate change?

Or, it could be ordinary people are becoming too worried about the next economic downturn to care about climate change anymore.

Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief

 
 
What Happened to Climate Change?
Connor O’Keeffe
Only a couple years ago, climate change was a major political issue. Now it’s strangely absent from public discourse. Why did this happen? Because, at least for now, it stopped being the most useful way for elites to justify their power grabs.
 
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The Next Economic Downturn Will Be Here Soon Enough
Vincent Cook
The US economy is hooked on easy money and artificially low interest rates. Huge credit expansions are not “stimulating” the economy; they are destroying it.
 
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Against the State
 
In this 2014 talk, Lew Rockwell articulates some important points for the growing anarcho-capitalist movement.
 
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How Religious Freedom in America Was Founded on Privatization and Decentralization
 
Why religious liberty grew.
 
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How the American Government Used Protestantism to Block Communism in Latin America
To counter Marxist-liberal Catholicism, the CIA funded Protestantism, focusing on charismatic and prosperity gospel branches.
 
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Energy Holodomor
At first glance, it might seem extreme—even offensive—to compare anti-fossil fuel climate policies to Stalin’s deliberate starvation of millions during the Holodomor. But in truth, the comparison may be unfair—to Stalin.
 
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Why Hayek Rejected Merit-Based Equality
In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood that in a free society, inequality is inevitable.
 
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The Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve
 
Mark appears on the Scott Horton Show to discuss the state of the US economy.
 
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Hayek for the 21st Century
 
The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of this collection of essays by Austrian School economist and Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek, whom Ludwig von Mises described as “one of the great economists” of all time. The vision of this book is to introduce a new generation of readers to Hayek’s writings.
 
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