13 Jan 2020

How Great Men Allocate Their Time

Religious 5 Comments

One of my favorite articles for Mises.org was, “Superman Needs an Agent.” I reached the surprising conclusion–even to myself–that Superman should focus on public exhibitions of his powers (rather than amazing one-off things), if his goal is to help humanity in a nuts-and-bolts manner.

In a perhaps related vein, recently I was musing on how Jesus spends some of His time in the gospel accounts going around and engaging in mass healing. Like, a town would bring up their sick and He would heal everybody.

But that’s not all that Jesus did. And so it occurred to me to ask, “Why not?”

And the answer, of course, is that Jesus had such important things to teach people, that at a certain point “on the margin” it was much more valuable for Him to take an hour to deliver the Sermon on the Mount, rather than go track down another group of people with diseases.

Finally, I want to mention that Jesus frequently took time to step away from everybody and pray. One might think that as busy and as connected to His Father as Jesus was, He could “skip leg day” but oh no.

09 Jan 2020

BMS ep. 92: FBI Spying and the Gaslighting of America

Big Brother, Bob Murphy Show 6 Comments

I read the Executive Summary of the IG report, so you don’t have to.

07 Jan 2020

BMS ep. 91: Bryan Caplan on Open Borders and His Critique of Austrian Economics

Bob Murphy Show, Bryan Caplan 7 Comments
03 Jan 2020

Should We Trust the Climate Models? Part 2 of 3

Climate Change 24 Comments

Available here.

02 Jan 2020

BMS ep. 90: Trump’s Ukraine Call Was Small Potatoes

Bob Murphy Show, Trump 23 Comments

I make the case

01 Jan 2020

Murphy Twin Spin at Mises Wire

Economics No Comments

I may have already posted these… At Mises.org I recently had a post on Robert Reich and billionaires, and another on managed trade agreements.

30 Dec 2019

Bob Murphy Show Ep. 89: David Gordon on Hayek and Rothbard, and Libertarianism as an Alleged Suicide Pact

Bob Murphy Show No Comments

This was a fun one

30 Dec 2019

Soho Forum Debate on Abortion

Culture Wars 5 Comments

This was the best presentation I’ve seen Walter Block give for his “evictionism” stance. I only watched the two opening statements. Is Block saying that if the fetus is non-viable then removal should be illegal? It wasn’t obvious to me what his view was on that (currently extremely important) point.