After I spoke at the University of Colorado at Boulder last week, someone asked whether political centralization was inevitable, given the advantages in warfare that a centralized state enjoys, and…
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Whether or not a sixth U.S. war could deal with them, would those Iranian nukes, which we have no evidence exist, be the end of the world?  Michael Desch wonders…
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I was surprised the other day when someone on Twitter criticized me for defending Michael Milken in my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History .  Why, didn’t I know he had pleaded guilty? Here’s Paul Craig…
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Gang, you know I would crawl over broken glass for this guy, and that I consider him a giant in terms of his intelligence, his courage, his honesty, and his…
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From my post-debate commentary: Once again, Ron Paul distinguished himself in a Republican presidential debate by telling Americans the truth, answering the questions he was asked, and refusing to treat…
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In time for the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the leftist National Catholic Reporter treats us to an entirely conventional rendition and defense of that awful episode in U.S. history, a…
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Adam Serwer at the American Prospect writes : Recently, Cato’s C. Bradley Thompson wrote about neoconservatism, saying that neoconservatives “are and always have been, by contrast, defenders of the post–New Deal welfare…
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Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson launched his 2012 presidential campaign today.  The commissars of approved opinion instantly condemned him for deviating from the Biden/Romney spectrum.  Like Ron Paul, Johnson has had some favorable…
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Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the head of the Vatican’s bank, has denounced the Keynesian economic policies that are wreaking havoc on the Western world, and recommends the book Where Keynes Went Wrong by Austrian School economist…
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