Politico has an article called “ Paul Ryan’s Voting Record: Big-Spending Conservatism .” My favorite part is the statement by Amy Kremer, who chairs the Tea Party Express. I’ll take it apart a bit. I think that he’s somebody who’ll stand up and accept responsibility for previous actions. Translation: When he’s…
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Tonight is the monthly live session that supplements our downloadable courses at Liberty Classroom. This month we’re back to our U.S. historians again, with Kevin Gutzman, Brion McClanahan, and me. If you’re a member and logged in, you can join us at the Live Sessions page at 8pm…
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In the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Lucas Engelhardt, a professor of economics at Kent State University, takes on one of the most common arguments against Austrian business cycle theory — namely, that entrepreneurs should become wise to the Fed’s game…
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I was helping a friend do some comparison shopping today and came across this site , which sells basic netbooks for around $100. Not an ideal solution, to be sure, but if money is very tight and you still need some computing and/or wifi capability, it’s better…
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You won’t do better than this collection of truth-telling posts.

That’s it; I’ve decided I’m sharing an interesting song or two every week. I love the raw sound of early Genesis, with Peter Gabriel at the helm. Here’s Can-Utility and the Coastliners (1972):

A quotation from Benjamin Franklin is being passed around by leftists these days: “All the Property that is necessary to a man, for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species, is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of: But…
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Comic relief for punctuation nerds like me.

Thanks to Brad Birzer and The American Conservative for this review of Back on the Road to Serfdom , a book I edited early last year.