Archive for October, 2011
Reminder: Class on the Best of Rothbard Starts Tomorrow
I am really looking forward to teaching this material. The final third of Man, Economy, and State is jam-packed with great stuff, including the best critiques of Keynesianism (at least the old school variants).
Read moreGlenn Greenwald, Radical, Thinks Government Should Explain Why It Killed Somebody
Some people are getting upset that the antiwar crowd is focusing on the citizenship of Anwar Awlaki, so I won’t bring that up. (The reason is that before, during the Bush years, a lot of people shrugged off the trial-less waterboardings and detentions by saying, “They’re not citizens, so the Constitution doesn’t apply.” Whether or […]
Read moreForget Chris Christie: Republican Businessmen Should Draft Robert Johnson
The founder of BET talks common sense, and he might actually get away with it because, well you know why:
Read moreDanger from the Euro, Malpractice from the Fed
That’s the title of my inaugural piece at the Washington Times. An excerpt: Note the pattern over the last decade: Instead of giving us a painful but standard recession, Alan Greenspan gave us the illusion of a quick recovery in the early 2000s. When the housing bubble burst, it was no longer a mere recession […]
Read moreElizabeth Warren’s Blank Check
Judging from the number of Facebook “likes,” this is the best column I’ve ever written. It seems libertarians are more excited about someone trying to take their money, than about the finer points of capital theory. An excerpt: Warren is right: there is a widespread view that really wealthy people are very fortunate — that […]
Read moreOne Bible Contradiction Cleared Up
I know my frequent critics here won’t believe this, but I do think that it is rational to believe in the Bible and Jesus. I haven’t spelled out the full story of my conversion from atheism here, but it’s accurate to say that I eventually concluded that the hypothesis of Jesus’ divinity was the best […]
Read moreTom Woods Having Another Field Day With Small-Big Government Conservatives
I particularly liked this part: Throughout the Cold War, Soviet capabilities were consistently, almost ludicrously, inflated. It is hard to believe that so-called conservatives could in effect have shared the rosy view of Soviet productive capacity put forth by the likes of John Kenneth Galbraith and Paul Samuelson, but share them they did. It is […]
Read moreUpdate on My Inflation Bets
I know that a while ago I made two inflation bets, one with Bryan Caplan and a much more serious one with David Henderson. Here are the terms with Caplan: At any point between now and January 2016, if there is a year/year increase in seasonally adjusted CPI that is at least 10%, then [Caplan […]
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