Episode

Fireworks for the Regime: What July 4th Actually Celebrates

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Audio Mises Wire
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Jul 9, 2026
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Summary

Every July 4th, politicians climb podiums, flags wave, a hundred million dollars’ worth of fireworks scatter across the sky, and somewhere between the hot dogs and the stadium-rock anthems, it becomes easy to confuse the theater of freedom with the substance of it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fireworks-regime-what-july-4th-actually-celebrates