A reader writes: I have just been assigned a paper for American History at my college in which I must: “1. Explain how checks and balances (Federal and State) provided…
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You know how some people are so clueless they have no idea how clueless they are? Bob Murphy just wrote to me about a critic of his most recent video: Someone posted…
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I noted here last week that I was going to Chicago to see Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. (Some supporters put together a great event for me while I was in…
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This is what I mean when I say that figuring out what the conservative position is or ought to be on this or that is like nailing jelly to a wall. The…
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KC Johnson struck me as a left-liberal when I studied with him at Harvard. I’m not sure what he is now, exactly, though he is always interesting to read. Here he looks at the history departments at Bowdoin College and UCLA .…
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A reader writes: I am writing from India, a country cloaked in Socialist government policies. I came across Austrian School of Economics on the Internet, and was surprised that even…
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Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn’t know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist,…
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There’s a bizarre left-wing/LaRouchian claim going around that the Austrian School of economics is nothing more than a grandiose rationalization of world domination by the existing financial elite. The financial elite allegedly support Austrian…
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Max Keiser and his co-host continued the barrage of insults while I was in Tampa this weekend, and of course portrayed my absence as evidence that I am a charlatan…
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I believe economist Bob Murphy is correct that I misinterpreted one of Sandeep Jaitly’s statements in his now-notorious interview with Max Keiser. I found Jaitly to be well meaning but not a particularly good…
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