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Murphy Growth Plan for St. Patrick’s Day

Actually the article ran yesterday but I didn’t notice until today… My latest at FEE takes up the Gerald Friedman conundrum. An excerpt: Turning to students: according to the Census Bureau, about 17 million are enrolled in high school. Assume that with no coercion and with plenty of entry-level jobs (thanks to abolition of the […]

“Man Down”

It’s rather disturbing that this is all real footage.

Adam House on Medical Marijuana

I got to know Adam when we drove to Atlanta to catch a Jordan Page house party. He has an interesting story in that he came back from Afghanistan–where he originally thought he was defending American liberty–only to find (as I think he would describe it) that the country had been sold out to bankers […]

(Edited) Murphy Remarks to TN-NORML Meeting

We were crammed into a side room at a restaurant (because the normal venue apparently double-booked) but I gave a 15-minute talk to the TN chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).

More on Drug Cartels and Private Law

I realized from the reaction of some people here that I did not assure readers I had fully understood Gene Callahan’s point, when he claimed that drug cartels today offer a real-world glimpse into what Rothbardian defense agencies would look like. So I wrote a follow-up post to be sure I acknowledged Gene’s exact point, […]

Where Are the Rothbardian Defense Agencies?

I answer Gene Callahan’s objections in this post at Mises Canada. An excerpt: As I said upfront, Callahan’s mistake here is forgivable, because even many Rothbardians have probably made it when discussing prohibition. So let me explain that intellectual error, then circle back to deal with Callahan. We all have the empirical evidence in front […]

There Are Christian Anarchists

This is going to be a brief post since I have been traveling all day, coming back from Porcfest (which was awesome, by the way, but more on that as the video becomes available). Anyway, while at Porcfest I was chatting with an economics colleague, and she said that someone at dinner was stunned to […]

Potpourri

==> I missed this when he first posted it, but Silas Barta has a good contribution on the broken window debate, and how it relates to “recalculation.” I think if Tyler Cowen had written the exact same blog post (scattered with references to classic papers in the literature) people would be doubled over at the […]