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Driving Out the Canaanites

On a recent episode of the Tom Woods Show, Gene Epstein debated Elliot Resnick on the question of whether the state of Israel should give up any territory to the Palestinians. Resnick offered a Biblical defense of Israel’s right to the land, to which Gene said something like (I’m paraphrasing): “As libertarians, we can’t justify […]

Economists Overlook Problems With a Carbon Tax

My latest at IER. One of the analysts there said he thought this was the single best explanation I’ve given, for what’s wrong with the common “tax ‘bads’ not goods” argument. Anyway, I am using Tyler Cowen, Scott Sumner, and John Cochrane as foils in this piece. An excerpt: Try a different example: Imagine if […]

God’s Instructions for Israel’s Kings

Wow, even though I’ve read this before, I somehow never retained these passages where God anticipates that Israel will have kings. (Note that this comes *before* the passage in Samuel where Israel demands a king and God warns them of all the bad consequences this will entail.) Anyway here is Dt. 17: 14-20: 14“When you […]

Soft Launch: The Bob Murphy Show

I am still waiting for iTunes to officially accept the podcast, and I’m about to get on the road. So at this point, I’m throwing caution to the winds and letting you guys take a sneak peak. Here’s the website for my new podcast. Kick the tires and tell me if you see anything, especially […]

Impressionist Does Robin Williams, Jack Nicholson, and even Ron Paul

My dad sent me this compilation. Pretty good.

Catching Up on Contra Krugman

I realized *I* hadn’t listened to some of these, so let’s make sure I didn’t miss anything: ==> In Ep. 161 we tackle a question from a listener, on how to unwind the Fed’s balance sheet. ==> In Ep. 162 we’re live from the Contra Cruise, handling tough questions for libertarians (roads, kids, military defense). […]

Three Links

==> My appearance on the “Legendary Man Cave” podcast talking about Austrian economics. ==> On Lions of Liberty talking Krugman. ==> We have the LMR interviews now available to everybody, going back to Scott Horton’s May issue.