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Stephan Kinsella Debates Bob Murphy on Argumentation Ethics

For real, this was awesome. I spent years thinking Stephan didn’t understand what Gene Callahan and I did in our critique of Hoppe’s famous argument for libertarian property rights, and (I’m guessing) Stephan spent years thinking we were morons. Well, we talked at least a half hour before we even found a spot where we […]

A Falsifiable (Back) Test of the Krugman-Callahan Hypothesis

As if to help crystallize my attempts to get Daniel Kuehn to see why Krugman has been aggravating me on the issue of free-trade advocacy, Gene has a great post in which he suggests that it’s all due to the pay of Big Imports. Can we all agree that a good test would be my […]

Potpourri

==> This is an unexpectedly good episode of the Tom Woods Show. He debates Matt Zwolinski on a basic income guarantee. I went into it thinking it would be like debating whether Kevin Spacey was a better Lex Luthor than Gene Hackman, but actually it was very entertaining. ==> An Austrian tries to assert her […]

Trolling, Trolling, Trolling Down the River

Largely because I’m technologically impaired, I don’t follow a large number of blogs. So even if I zing a certain blogger regularly, he should feel flattered. In that light, I offer the following two items: ==> I was mostly being a smart aleck when I pointed out that Scott Sumner was being Krugman-esque when he […]

What’s Good for Dave Ramsey Is Good for Charles Krauthammer

Gene Callahan has consistently opposed my view that it is a perfectly fine rhetorical move to exaggerate the numbers in an opponent’s position, to see how compelling the stated principle really is. A few years ago Gene complained when libertarians did this in the minimum wage debate, and just recently he said that my rhetorical […]

Is the State More Like a Gym or an Army?

Not surprisingly, Gene Callahan did not care for my novel analysis of General Zod’s (brief) domination of planet Earth. Yet in his attempt to show how much I was misconstruing the average person’s support for the State, Gene seems to give away the whole game. Here’s Gene: Bob Murphy claims “Thus, the average person defends […]

New Posts on ObamaCare and Immigration

At Mises Canada I have two new posts: ==> This one is fun. I just walk through a NYT article on New York state’s experience with ObamaCare to show how it is screwing certain people. Oh yeah, the article was singled out by Paul Krugman to show how great ObamaCare is. ==> In this one […]

Potpourri

==> Dan Sanchez has a great review of the new Captain America movie. However, MAJOR SPOILERS. If you are borderline, I would strongly nudge you to go watch it; it was a lot better than I had hoped. Then after you watch it, read Dan’s review. ==> I was on the Power Trading Radio show […]