On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton uses vitamin K2 (MK-7) as a case study in how technocracy goes wrong, elevating cutting-edge findings and bureaucracy over experience, incentives, and real-world diets. Mark explains why K2 is linked in emerging research to bone health, arterial calcification, and even neurodegenerative conditions, and highlights a paradox: many food sources rich in K2 (beef, eggs, butter, chicken liver, European cheeses, salami) are officially discouraged, while “approved” sources (natto, kefir, sauerkraut) are niche. The takeaway isn’t medical advice, it’s a critique of a compliance-driven health regime that sidelines decentralized knowledge and choice.

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Vitamins vs. Technocracy: Lessons from MK-7

Advocates for US military intervention have invoked the war against the Barbary pirates as justification. Yet, an examination of that conflict shows that President Jefferson’s actions were limited and followed the direction of Congress.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jeffersons-war-barbary-pirates-unjustified-password-military-intervention

Jefferson’s War on the Barbary Pirates Is an Unjustified Password for Military Intervention

A long-enduring myth about money is that we need a flexible or “elastic” currency for the economy to grow. Economist Jonathan Newman joins us to talk about why this has never been true. 

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Does Economic Growth Require an Elastic Money Supply?

Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining every supposed peaceful goal they claim to be pursuing.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/individualism-and-violence-identitarian-left

Individualism and the Violence of the Identitarian Left

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages

Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages

The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has focused attention on political violence. Ludwig von Mises, not surprisingly, understood that tying morality to politicized state helps create the climate where political violence is prevalent.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mises-separating-morality-and-state

Mises on Separating Morality and State

Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy brings together Friedrich Hayek’s most powerful essays on the knowledge problem, competition, socialism, and honest money—showing why his ideas are more relevant today than ever. From his devastating critiques of central planning to his insights on decentralized knowledge and market signals, Hayek dismantles the myths of state control with clarity and force. These essays offer essential tools for understanding liberty, spontaneous order, and the perils of political overreach.

Narrated by Bill Anciaux.

Chapter 6. The Pretense of Knowledge

“The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican Acts were monstrous.”

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/letters-frank-meyer-reveal-rothbards-views-lincoln-slavery-and-popular-sovereignty

Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard’s Views on Lincoln, Slavery, and Popular Sovereignty

Once upon a time, American firms built with the long term in view, and the government did not try to hinder them. Today, thanks to reckless federal government spending, we are living hand-to-mouth, accumulating massive debts, and soon enough will be broke.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/going-broke

Going for Broke

“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/acid-rain-scare-and-science-industrial-complex

The "Acid Rain" Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex

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