Bob Murphy

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Can You Speak Ill of the Ill?

I wouldn’t have said a word about Charles Krauthammer were it not for people who are guffawing over the fact that some criticize him. For example, here’s Jim Geraghty: There’s not a lot that can be added to the tributes and appreciations that arrived almost immediately. Fay Vincent writes “he goes out like Lou Gehrig.” […]

A Good Example of People Not Believing Their Own Rhetoric

If Prof. Suzanna Danuta Walters didn’t exist, Jordan Peterson would have to invent her. (Or rather, the kind of fictional nemesis Jordan Peterson’s critics attribute to him, actually is real: it’s this lady. Seriously, look at her list of publications.) In a Washington Post op ed titled, “Why can’t we hate men?” she writes: Women […]

Potpourri

==> CONTEST! Get your video posted for free admission to the Contra Cruise. Details in the middle of this episode (which is also quite good). ==> I differ with the Pope on transubstantiation *and* climate economics. ==> This is a great Tom Woods interview of Saifedean Ammous. He is an economist with a very particular […]

Brian Zahnd Critiques Penal Substitution Theory

I am guessing one of you recommended this video to me, back when I blogged about this general topic. Anyway, I just got around to watching it. Very good, especially how he quotes repeatedly from Acts to make his point.

“George is getting very angry!”

I get pretty worked up in the latest Contra Krugman.

A Primer on IBC

FEE asked me to write a primer that would work for even high school students. You can read it, no one is looking.

Russell Brand interviews Jordan Peterson

This is a really good one that Dan C. sent me.

Krugman Nails It On the Press and Argentina

I had toyed with writing this up, but I’m just too swamped with stuff this month. So a drive-by instead. First we have Krugman rolling his eyes at the financial press in 2012: And then a news item from last month: And incidentally, I don’t think this is just a Nelsonian moment of ridicule. The […]