I just noticed that Kevin Gutzman’s excellent book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is selling for only $7.78, down from $19.95, at Amazon. Here’s my review of that book. (UPDATE: Perhaps because people started buying, it’s suddenly up to $12.56 — still a good deal, though.) Two of my own books, Nullification and…
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“Why do Paul, Beck, and the World Bank have the same monetary reform policy?” wonders Red Pill Radio. (I have no idea what Glenn Beck’s proposal for monetary reform is, so I’ll stick to Ron Paul and the World Bank.) This is like asking, “Why did…
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Or so goes the sixth-grade civics lesson. Against that, here’s Murray Rothbard: The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of person and property, but dangers to its own contentment: for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to…
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According to Public Policy Polling’s most recent survey of likely Iowa caucus-goers, the current numbers are: Gingrich 22% Paul 21% Romney 16% Bachmann 11% Perry 9% Santorum 8% Huntsman 5% Johnson 1% In New Hampshire, Rasmussen is reporting these numbers: Romney 33% Gingrich 22% Paul 18% Huntsman…
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The last of my live Q&A sessions for 2011 will take place tonight at 9pm ET. Click here at that time to join in!

A couple days ago I emailed George Reisman, professor emeritus of economics at Pepperdine University, and brought to his attention a recent article by Henry Blodget at Business Insider. Refuting this article would bring him great intellectual pleasure, I said. Reisman emailed a reply to Blodget, and has granted…
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I’ve been getting quite a response to my recent interview with The Daily Bell. Here are links to some of the items I mentioned in that interview: For Prof. Hunt Tooley’s work on the “merchants of death,” click here . For my NPR piece on the recent Vatican document…
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I’ve been balancing a number of long-term projects over the past few months, whose deadlines were approaching at the end of the year. I’m just about finished with them, which means little by little I’m able to start following current events more closely. Believe it…
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Joe Salerno, author of the excellent book Money: Sound and Unsound , takes up the question.

I’ll always consider New England my home, so I’m thrilled to be able to speak at a debate party in Manchester on January 7. Jordan Page will be there as well. Hope you can attend, and/or help spread the word!