I haven’t had a chance to read this paper by Walter Block and J.H. Huebert in defense of the corporate form, but I present it to readers who may be interested. Last time I posted on this topic I had an angry, uncomprehending critic going on about corporations that don’t pay wages high enough to satisfy him,… Read More
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The Mind of a Great Chess Player
I stayed up late last night finishing The Queen’s Gambit , a novel recommended to me by the great Walter Block. I disagree with reviewers who say you don’t need to be interested in chess to enjoy it. But if you do love the game, you will be… Read More
Why It Is OK to Vote, Part II
“Deregulation Caused the Financial Crisis”
Advice for Prospective (Austrian) Grad Students in Economics
Although my own degrees are in history, I get a lot of requests for advice from prospective graduate students in economics. I always recommend three things. First, Walter Block’s list of Austrian-sympathetic economics departments and faculty . I then recommend this post and this post from Joe Salerno. Hope you find them helpful.
Ep. 2348 Alfred Hitchcock, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and More Greats We Need to Encounter
The great Brad Birzer, Russell Amos Kirk professor of American studies at Hillsdale College, joins us for an outstanding discussion of some of the great works of modern literature and film (and even music), and why your spirit needs them. Sponsor If you’re a listener… Read More
Ep. 2278 The President Historians Hate
Warren G. Harding has often come in dead last, or close to it, in historians’ rankings of the presidents. These rankings are completely useless, since they simply reflect the political bias of historians. (How can someone nonideologically declare whether a president was a “failure” or… Read More
Ep. 1593 Defending the Undefendable: A Libertarian Defense of Despised People
Today we discuss Walter’s classic work, Defending the Undefendable. The rogues gallery Walter seeks to rehabilitate in this episode includes the middleman, the slumlord, the speculator, and more. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 21,000 classes in design, business, technology, and more.… Read More
Man Unsubscribes from Woods Newsletter Because of Support for War 28 Years Ago
The latest issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free and receive my eBook Think for Yourself: Professors Who Resisted the Mob Tell Their Stories as a gift. Yesterday I wrote to you about the death of Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC), the man… Read More
Enough Already with the Juvenile ‘Privilege’ Nonsense
I wonder what Walter Williams would think of the suggestion that the libertarian movement is “too white,” or that it’s that way because libertarians are gratuitously mean to nonwhites or have not abased themselves sufficiently. The Anarchist Notebook writes: I like to consider myself a calm person. Most… Read More