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… Read More
You Owe Your Success to the State, Citizen
Over on my Facebook page , someone pointed out a review of a new book called The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed . Not having read the book, I don’t know whether it or the review itself is more grating, but I bet it’s close. The review, at least, is an exercise in question-begging, gratuitous assumption, and… Read More
How Do I Answer My Marxist Professor?
Over at Liberty Classroom , my new site, a student writes: Hi everyone, I’m 17 years old and need to prepare a counterattack against my history teacher. Today she portrayed the Industrial Revolution from a typical Marxist perspective. I’ve already watched your lectures on this topic and… Read More
Paul Krugman: The Fed Didn’t Create the Housing Bubble
I am told that Paul Krugman denied on television last night that the Federal Reserve caused the housing bubble. There is such an embarrassment of riches on this topic that one scarcely knows where to begin. But for some hard numbers, I recommend a few… Read More
Guest Ideas Needed!
I’ll be filling in for Peter on the Peter Schiff Show two weeks in a row starting next Monday. I have a few guest ideas in mind, but I am very interested in your input. I prefer to avoid candidates for office if possible; these can come off… Read More
Ian Anderson!
From the well-worth-the-wait Thick as a Brick 2 .
Mitt the Exciting, Part II
I received a note via my Contact page to the effect that it was “low” of me to have posted a picture of a Romney crowd from January. Why, didn’t I know the photo was from January? How awful! Aside from the fact that my post linked to the January article containing the photo, the real… Read More
Mitt Excites America
A Romney crowd in South Carolina .
Happy Birthday, Amy!
Smashing a Fallacy
Someone sent a message via my Facebook page in which he noted something a friend had told him: Demand creates jobs. How do we increase demand? We provide assistance where needed to create economic activity where the private sector won’t. We INVEST it in our infrastructure instead of… Read More