I’m running some errands before heading out for my events in St. Paul tomorrow, so here’s a quick post about the Mises Institute’s Mises University summer program, which was the formative event in my own intellectual development 20 years ago. (I was class of ’93, not ’92, at… Read More
Is There a Right Way to Interpret the Constitution?
I talk to Brion McClanahan, author of The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution , in this brief video. I was in a funny mood this morning, so I decided to include a blooper at the end.
Without the State, We Would Have Nothing
In a discussion of the show The Walking Dead, fiction writer Steven Lloyd Wilson says : All of these events are the slow stripping away of the vestiges of the state, deriving step by step the hell that waits at the logical end of the libertarian impulse, a counterpoint to… Read More
Eric Holder Threatens Kansas Over Nullification
Here’s a nice reply by Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center . See also: NullificationFAQ.com StateNullification.com Is Nullification Unconstitutional?
The Dunces Are Against Him
Where’s the Austerity?
by Eamonn Butler “What austerity?” asks the super-sound UK economic commentator Liam Halligan in the Telegraph . GDP is down to be sure (6.2% below its pre-crisis peak), and we members of the public are indeed tightening our belts. Not so government. It’s belt-tightening amounts to just 2.7% “cuts” over six years. That’s after previous Chancellor/PM… Read More
The Real Cranks Are on TV
Ron Unz, who publishes The American Conservative , writes to say: Thanks so much for the great plug this morning on your website. And you’d had an excellent column a couple of days ago about that Weinstein fellow denouncing Eric Margolis and various other “fringe cranks” grouped around Ron Paul. As… Read More
Robert Reich Keeps Spreading the Fallacies
Bob Murphy answered a viral Robert Reich video , which was filled with one fallacy after another, back in 2011. Now he’s back with a video claiming that the two positions on the economy are his own Keynesian one, and Paul Ryan’s. Oh, and he also says World War II… Read More
Discount Woods/Murphy/Zombie Tickets End Tonight
Over on my Facebook page , Bob Murphy writes: “You guys know that Tom and I are incredibly modest, so believe me when I say this event will be epic.” We’ll bring back the zombie , have a mock Krugman debate, some singing, some learnin’, some book signing, and… Read More
Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin
by Lew Rockwell The recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite like it. Ideologically diverse, the Ron Paul Institute reaches out to all Americans, and indeed to people all over the world, who find the… Read More
