“The State is not force alone,” said H.L. Mencken. “It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but… Read More
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The Anti-Rothbard Cult
I think you’ll enjoy this brief, informal talk I gave last week at Mises U, on a subject we’ve needed to bring into the open for a long time now.
The Bubble
The Myth of ‘Executive Privilege’
Historian Kevin Gutzman discusses “executive privilege.” A few snippets: The Executive Branch was intended by the Constitution’s authors and ratifiers to be precisely that – the executor of policies made by Congress, not… Read More
Ron Paul’s Task: Build Up the Remnant
My latest column . I talked about this in Oklahoma:
Devotion to Mitt
Dan McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative , writes: Not only do people not hug Mitt and tell him his philosophy changed their life , but when The American Conservative‘s intern asked a Mitt sign-waver at CPAC what his favorite Mitt policy was,… Read More
Washington Post Portrays Romney as Carbon Copy of Ron Paul
Leave it to the Washington Post to try to pretend that Mitt TARP Romney is for laissez-faire economics, or that a man who gives a Keynesian defense of his refusal to cut $1 trillion in… Read More
You Owe Your Success to the State, Citizen
Over on my Facebook page , someone pointed out a review of a new book called The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed . Not having read the book, I don’t know whether it or the review itself is more grating,… Read More
Paul Krugman: The Fed Didn’t Create the Housing Bubble
I am told that Paul Krugman denied on television last night that the Federal Reserve caused the housing bubble. There is such an embarrassment of riches on this topic that… Read More
The Secret Ingredient: Seasonal, Local Food
Over at the LRC blog , Karen de Coster has an interesting post about “ Ingredients ,” a documentary on local food production as opposed to the industrial food model. As someone who… Read More
