Wisconsin Mises Caucus

Cornell 7 FATE The Cornell 7 episode is an active psychological operation in the FATE framework (Focus, Authority, Tribe, Emotion) used by leftist cultural and media operators, and their institutional allies, to divide men and women, distract from self-accountability, and expand the state’s role as the residual authority once the natural family and personal responsibility are eroded. Following patterns visible in prior high-profile cases such as Lindsay Clancy, the operation saturates attention (Focus) with a simplified gang-rape narrative, deploys institutional and media authority figures to lock in the preferred story before full evidence is public (Authority), polarizes the sexes into opposing classes (Tribe), and triggers outrage and protective emotion that short-circuits due process and the presumption of innocence (Emotion). The result is politicization of the sexes, weakening of the family as the primary unit of self-reliance, and cultural destruction of the habits of self-ownership, chastity, temperance, and protection of the vulnerable that underwrote the American founding. Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson examined the Cornell 7 events at the Chi Phi fraternity house on October 19–20, 2024. Kelly, drawing on Jane Doe’s initial signed police statement, post-incident messages, and the men’s accounts, argues the encounters began with consensual activity (including an agreed threesome) and that voluntary intoxication under New York law does not automatically establish lack of capacity or criminal liability. They highlight discrepancies between the earlier account and the later civil lawsuit’s gang-rape narrative, criticize the media for naming the accused while granting the accuser anonymity, and frame the broader reaction as driven by toxic feminism, institutional bias, and a collapse of personal responsibility and due process rather than clear evidence of non-consent. Men and women are not opposing classes locked in permanent conflict; they are complementary beings whose cooperation in the family and voluntary society is the historical foundation of ordered liberty in the American tradition. The corrective response is self-accountability rooted in the moral framework that is the backbone of the American founding and the classical liberal order: the Christian tradition, whether one practices the faith or simply inherits its ethical code of duty, chastity, temperance, and the protection of the vulnerable. Libertarians understand that free markets, sound money, and property rights cannot long survive a culture that treats the family as optional and sexual restraint as optional. High time-preference behavior, public degradation of the opposite sex(by both men and women), and the refusal to own one’s choices create the vacuum that the state rushes to fill. Christian’s and Libertarian’s are therefore called to continue the work of being living examples. Be moral, accountable, protective of the vulnerable, truthful and righteous in speech and action, unwilling to exploit intoxication or confusion, prepared to defend due process and apply praxology to our institutions so that we may understand the motivations and incentives of leftists in bureaucracy and media. Let us continue the American inheritance: self-ownership paired with the morality that makes liberty sustainable across generations. Reject the media’s manufactured war between the sexes. Model, in your own households, businesses, and local communities, the character that makes voluntary order possible. That is the libertarian response: individual responsibility, cultural integrity, and a moral foundation based on duty, chastity, temperance, and the protection of the vulnerable. Love and appreciate one another as God and nature intended, and stop the leftist moral decay that routinely puts both sexes outside of their natural order.

mises.org/mises-wire/covid-w… Covid was a praxeological test. Praxeology starts from action. Scientists, regulators, and public-health bureaucracies act. They are incentivized by funding, promotion, access, and professional standing; which shapes what is produced, published, and corrected. And who bears the inevitable losses, you and I. Failure at the CDC is rewarded with a larger budget. While failure in the market place is rewarded with bankruptcy. Market institutions face a test these bureaucracies do not. The entrepreneur who misjudges loses resources. A public-health agency that misjudges gains resources. Bureaucratic failure becomes an argument for a larger budget. Consumers cannot withdraw support. Competitors are limited to non existent. Loss is borne by the public, not by the officials who authorized the policy. Let us remember the lessons from Covid and apply praxology to our institutions moving forward so that we may understand the motivations and incentives of the non capitalist system we live in today.