This is what I mean when I say that figuring out what the conservative position is or ought to be on this or that is like nailing jelly to a wall. The message of this op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer is that we conservatives, and our pal Romney, are just trying to trim… Read More
Archives for October 2012
You May Not Be Ready for This Post
Gerard Casey is a professor of philosophy at University College, Dublin. His most recent book is Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State . In this video he talks about the ideas and works of Murray Rothbard. Shocking stuff, yet you can’t quite turn away. (I was reminded of this video because… Read More
How the United States Became a Superpower of the Left
And “conservatives” think supporting it is patriotic and cool. But here’s Martin Sieff, with thanks to Gary North : Today, it is the United States under presidents of both parties that has embraced the Trotskyite delusion. The bipartisan policy of the United States has become Permanent Revolution… Read More
From the Department of Unintentional Humor
The Institute for New Economic Thinking is featuring an evening with Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz . Lots of brand new economic thinking will surely take place. So who’s bringing the “Debate Murphy” and “ KrugmanDebate.com ” signs?
‘No Candidate Without False Teeth Has Ever Been Elected…’
Me in Spain (Video)
This very short video, under three minutes long, was made during my various activities in Madrid last June, when I was a guest of the Fundacion Rafael del Pino .
I Am Academic and Funny All at Once, Insists Colleague
I made Bob Murphy (whom you know from KrugmanDebate.com , I trust) chuckle involuntarily, I discovered thanks to this two-and-a-half-minute video. This is very hard to do — it’s easy to laugh at Bob’s jokes, but much harder to make Bob himself laugh. Oh, and here’s the link Bob is talking… Read More
It’s a Wonderful Life (With Capitalism)
(Thanks to Travis Holte.)
George Will Repeats Fed Propaganda
“End the Fed” is much too radical for the American intellectual class, but everyone wants to jump aboard the anti-Fed bandwagon these days. So now we’re hearing, here and there, the “if only the Fed would return to its original mission” thing. That’s the line… Read More
Are Austrians and Keynesians on the Same Side After All?
Another of my barter-scrip critic’s claims : “Austrian/Keynsian economics are simply a Hegelian Debate wherein un-payable debt/interest contracts prevail with, or without force.” This claim rests on a confusion regarding what a “Hegelian debate” is. The Hegelian dialectic, which owes its formulation less to Hegel than… Read More
