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> In the early 90s, Austrian economist Steven Horwitz called the Mises Institute "a fascist fist in a libertarian glove."

> In 2003, an article by Chip Berlet of the SPLC noted Rothbard's disgust with child labor laws, and wrote that other Institute scholars held anti-immigrant views.

> In 2022, fundraising emails sent by the Mises Institute reportedly told followers that "elections aren't working anymore", arguing that the system is irreformable, captured by "parasites such as the Deep State, the political class, and the Federal Reserve", and claiming that "the Founding Fathers would demand revolution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mises_Institute

The Mises Institute is a political advocacy organization with pretty radical views. It endorses "heterodox economics" kind of how the flat earth society could be described as endorsing "heterodox science".




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