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History books often connect the Great Awakening to the American Revolution, but the connection remains vague. One overlooked link is how the revival challenged privileged religious establishments and helped fuel later colonial resistance to parliamentary supremacy.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/awakening-revolution-challenging-privilege-state-churches

A choice between the Republicans’ corporatism and the Democrats’ socialism is a sad choice.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/republicans-deserve-lose-democrats-do-not-deserve-win

Historians increasingly demonize Jackson for enacting “ethnic cleansing,” ranking his Indian removal program as one of the era’s most momentous laws.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-imperialism-and-jacksons-indian-removal

Increasingly, Americans and people around the world see the American government as a bankrupt, despotic empire headed in the wrong direction. The recent elections will change nothing. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/empire-has-no-clothes

The state and its entourage are first and foremost a self-serving gang who rarely suffer the consequences of the disastrous policies they inflict on the rest of us. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/midterm-massacre-gop-dealt-historic-beatdown-it-richly-deserved

While New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani correctly points out that people are being priced out of the essentials of daily living, he fails to identify the cause: government. Instead, he promises that government is the solution.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-mayor-mamdani-voting-everything-doesnt-promote-dignity

Jefferson did not mean equality in the sense that everyone is more or less equal in talents and abilities. And he certainly did not mean that equality (however defined) ought to imposed by a powerful state.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jefferson-secession-and-all-men-are-created-equal

While we should not fear mass unemployment from AI, it is true that some jobs will be displaced, including many BS jobs.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-will-cut-bs-jobs

Nathan Cofnas exposed a major fraud in elite British academics. For that, prosecutors want to put him in prison because the academic left prefers fantasy to the truth.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/unjust-prosecution-nathan-cofnas

What makes a nation? Is it simply a collection of ideals or does it depend upon one’s lineage, and “blood and soil”? In reality, nations are complex creations where both ideals and ties to the land are important.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/debating-proposition-nation