My friend Jason Jewell, who heads the department of humanities at Faulkner University and who prepared 84 lectures in Western civilization for my Liberty Classroom , made a new year’s resolution in 2011 to read the 60-volume Great Books of the Western World series over the course of seven years, including the…
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Max Keiser had a truly bizarre segment last week in which he and his guest advanced the claim that Ludwig von Mises didn’t qualify as an Austrian economist, so great were his alleged errors and deviations. Keiser himself knows nothing about this, needless to say,…
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This plan , says a booster, will “create jobs,” save Americans money, improve the auto industry, etc. Kind of makes you wonder why automakers wouldn’t just go ahead and do it, if it’s so good for them, but you are not supposed to ask that question.

“What’s Next for Tim Pawlenty?”

My friend Ron Unz recently launched Unz.org , a site with so many valuable resources I can hardly believe it. It is a researcher’s dream. In addition to much else, you’ll find the entire print run of countless periodicals, some mainstream and some more obscure. You’ll…
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Another entry in my little series . I have a young readership, so I have an obligation to bring good stuff to their attention.

Simon Johnson has a piece at Bloomberg today that urges the Romney/Ryan ticket to make reining in the big banks a major campaign issue. (Thanks to Michael Brendan Dougherty .) Oddly enough, Johnson makes some good points. (Forget his stuff about how great Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting was, and that the firms in question…
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No doubt this story could be replicated many times over if we looked at the backgrounds of other legislators, but the Harry Reid tale seems especially egregious. But remember: it is his passion for “public service” that motivates him, and all the rest of them, too.

Details are not yet known, but he will have a “surprise” role on its first day, insiders say .