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Steve Landsburg Wants You to Go Forth and Multiply

He gave the Hayek Lecture this year at IEA: This guy’s got a one-track mind, amirite?

Potpourri

==> An economist and the Pope walk into a finance class… ==> Wind and solar fans admit awkward fact about tax code. ==> My interview with David Gornoski concerned liberty and Christianity. It was not your typical discussion. ==> Richard Ebeling on neo-liberalism and then on communism. ==> Brad Birzer vs. the Senate.

Heaven vs. Hell

I think I’ve touched on this before, but perhaps it’s worth revisiting… An understandable stumbling block for people who encounter the Christian worldview is the notion that some external being is threatening to burn you for eternity if you don’t live up to his rules, even though you never agreed to them. What the hell?! […]

Stop Lying

Jordan Peterson is hands-down the most interesting “public intellectual” I’ve discovered in the last 10 years. I’ve been listening to his podcasts and I occasionally have to turn them off to process the profundity I just heard. Not only is he on top of several disciplines where I am not well-read, but he also can […]

Understanding Bitcoin

Not sure of the last time I pushed this… Anyway, if you want to learn about Bitcoin, here is the guide that Silas Barta and I wrote back in late 2014. It assumes you know nothing, and then takes you as deeply into the mechanics of it as you want to go.

Potpourri

==> I asked Scott Horton for a summary of the situation in Yemen; here he is on the Jason Stapleton show. ==> I really don’t have any strong view on this situation right now; I have to think it through. Anyway, in case you hadn’t heard, apparently Project Veritas got caught trying to trick WaPo […]

Reductio Ad Absurdum on Keynes?

I got this email (with permission to reprint). I would have to think about it some more before offering my own reaction, but I’m curious to hear your thoughts first. Message: I may have invented this reductio ad absurdum regarding Keynesianism. It starts predictably, but goes further than the usual construction. Keynes says that taking […]

Contra Keynes

Krugman has been writing nonstop on tax policy, so Tom and I did an evergreen: We just tackled Keynesianism per se in this episode. Fun for the whole fami– OK fun for just you.