I know it’s been done a million times, but in this case DeLong (the famous Keynesian at Berkeley) is shown to be in so far over his head that he really owes the world an apology, though I rather doubt we ought to expect one.

Instead of “USA! USA! USA!” — i.e., the kind of reply designed to flatter and placate the rubes — you get a sensible reflection of the sort one might have heard in the old days from Robert Taft, whom our laptop bombardiers have never heard…
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This article is example #8,933 of the importance of Jack Hunter as an Old Right, non-neocon writer and speaker.  Jack discusses his meeting with Kirkpatrick Sale, the radical decentralist who had enough principle to have his name removed from the masthead of The Nation when that magazine began drooling…
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Writes Pat Buchanan: “The people who should be indicted by history are not those who, after half a trillion dollars and a decade of bleeding, decided to cut America’s losses, but those who stampeded this country into two of the longest and least necessary wars in…
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Yet another excellent interview with Ron Paul, this one by the heroic Sirius/XM radio host Mike Church . This video was recorded after the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Of course, no other politician will stick to principled positions, actually defying the three-inch “mainstream” our overlords have allowed…
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Walter Williams and I wrote forewords to the 2012-13 edition of Choosing the Right College , just released.  It’s really an excellent resource.

Here’s my short list of books I would recommend to someone who is interested in the ideas on this site and wants to learn more.  If you read and absorb these books you will never look at the world the same way again. If you’re…
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Mike Church has Professor Kevin Gutzman on to discuss the recent decision in Bond v. United States. Listen to both parts here .

This is an astonishingly good interview with Ron Paul in Time magazine.  If you’re like me you’ve read or listened to a great many interviews with Dr. Paul, but I thought this was one of his best.

So says CNBC.  The piece is generally sound, except for this: “The news comes as the Federal Reserve considers whether the economy has regained enough strength to stand on its own.” This takes for granted, as if no proof were required, that Fed activities have helped…
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