Not long ago I had a chance to talk once again to David Stockman, budget director under Ronald Reagan and author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America . Here’s the audio , and here’s a YouTube . A very compelling conversation.…
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Last night I participated in something quite amazing by any standard, something with truly revolutionary potential. Three U.S. historians (Kevin Gutzman, Brion McClanahan, and I), each one an author in…
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This is simply unbelievable. For a long time, a very wealthy friend of mine who is an extremely good money manager had been sharing his IRA portfolio, and every buy…
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This is one of the most interesting and startling articles I have read in a long time.  In the usual version of events, the poor are helpless victims of capitalist exploitation,…
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Gene Healy at the Washington Examiner gives the grim details . But there’s more than what Gene digs up. Here’s what a Gingrich supporter is implicitly saying: (1) It’s all right that…
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I have interacted with quite a few opponents of the free market, both socialists and “traditionalists,” who have looked to the medieval guilds as a great example of how society…
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Continuing his refutation of the Ferrara book on Catholicism and libertarianism, Tony Flood discusses ( here , here , and here ) the enclosure movement in Britain. Ferrara, as I feared, has embarrassed…
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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…
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