Weird

Over the weekend, someone broke into the building housing the Ludwig von Mises Institute at Auburn. This article in the Opelika-Auburn News doesn't say whether anything was stolen, only that "Mises Institute Director Jeff Tucker said it appeared as though someone came in to trash the building."

The von Mises Institute is one of the nation's most well-known libertarian think-tanks. According to the Mises Institute web site: "The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics." The Wall Street Journal carried this very good (and very positive) profile of the Institute back in August.

Needless to say, many of the policies advocated by the Institute and its scholars are quite controversial. Makes you wonder whether this was just a run-of-the-mill break-in or if there's more to it than that.