Left-liberals have been arguing that the 1798 Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen, which none of them knew about until well after Obama’s health-care bill passed, makes Obama’s bill constitutional. Touching as this sudden constitutional scrupulosity may be, the 1798 act proves…
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I am considering getting a Kindle, but I understand .epub files are not compatible with it. I want to be able to read the electronic version of books that the Mises Institute makes available, but all of them are in .epub format. Is there some…
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I know it’s been done a million times, but in this case DeLong (the famous Keynesian at Berkeley) is shown to be in so far over his head that he really owes the world an apology, though I rather doubt we ought to expect one.

Instead of “USA! USA! USA!” — i.e., the kind of reply designed to flatter and placate the rubes — you get a sensible reflection of the sort one might have heard in the old days from Robert Taft, whom our laptop bombardiers have never heard…
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This article is example #8,933 of the importance of Jack Hunter as an Old Right, non-neocon writer and speaker.  Jack discusses his meeting with Kirkpatrick Sale, the radical decentralist who had enough principle to have his name removed from the masthead of The Nation when that magazine began drooling…
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Writes Pat Buchanan: “The people who should be indicted by history are not those who, after half a trillion dollars and a decade of bleeding, decided to cut America’s losses, but those who stampeded this country into two of the longest and least necessary wars in…
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Yet another excellent interview with Ron Paul, this one by the heroic Sirius/XM radio host Mike Church . This video was recorded after the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Of course, no other politician will stick to principled positions, actually defying the three-inch “mainstream” our overlords have allowed…
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Walter Williams and I wrote forewords to the 2012-13 edition of Choosing the Right College , just released.  It’s really an excellent resource.

Here’s my short list of books I would recommend to someone who is interested in the ideas on this site and wants to learn more.  If you read and absorb these books you will never look at the world the same way again. If you’re…
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Mike Church has Professor Kevin Gutzman on to discuss the recent decision in Bond v. United States. Listen to both parts here .