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
Music Post #2
Another entry in my little series . I have a young readership, so I have an obligation to bring good stuff to their attention.
Blast from the Past
Me in 1993, at the Mises Institute’s summer Mises University program, with Murray Rothbard .
How Big Should the Banks Be?
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… Read More
How Harry Reid Got Rich
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.
Donald Trump to Have Role at RNC
Details are not yet known, but he will have a “surprise” role on its first day, insiders say .
The Right’s Problem Is Not Its Alleged Opposition to Government
Dan McCarthy writes : Right now it’s fashionable to bash the right as too anti-statist and downright Randian. Francis Fukuyama hops on the bandwagon in a recent Financial Times op-ed calling for a more Hamiltonian, Theodore-Rooseveltian Republican Party. But isn’t that just what George W. Bush… Read More
Jefferson’s 19-Year Rule
I bring this up not to endorse or criticize either Jefferson or Madison, but just as a good example of the feedback members get in the Liberty Classroom forums. Someone asked, “In a letter Jefferson wrote to Madison about the Constitution he talked about how laws should… Read More
Austrian Economists Called ‘Unscientific’
I ask Jeff Herbener about this. Here’s Jeff’s full-length, step-by-step analysis of how economics should be done, and why it’s a category mistake to apply the “scientific method” to a discipline like economics. And here’s my neat little interview with Jeff about how he went from being a mainstream economics professor… Read More
Entitlement Albatross
This video features me along with a bunch of economists.
