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Do Parents Matter?

Bryan Caplan has been pounding on his theme over at EconLog that “parents don’t matter.” (See here and here.) I must confess that I am incredibly biased because one of my core beliefs is that parents have an incredibly profound influence on their kids. But having confessed my bias, I must report that I find […]

Robert Wenzel: I Love the Way This Guy Thinks

Check out his post speculating that the mysterious flu outbreak was a botched effort to force the commander in chief to assume room temperature. (Note that I am trying to avoid being flagged by the government computers that undoubtedly scour the internet looking for key phrases. Because of the post I’ve linked to above, I’m […]

Which One Doesn’t Belong?

At least one legal scholar in the photo below is not enthusiastic about Rothbardian private legal systems. Can you guess who? (HT2 Dick Clark for the photo.)

Ben Stein’s Expelled

A few years ago, when I was a college professor at Hillsdale (where a large fraction of the student body was very interested in Intelligent Design), I spent a lot of time reading in this area. My conclusion was that (a) the vast vast majority of people who subscribed to ID were Christians who had […]

God and Government

A colleague in Nashville (who is also an Austrian and a Christian) and I have been discussing the well-known passage in Judges (17:6) that says, “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” I think most American Christians believe that this passage condemns anarchy, i.e. […]

The League of Monetary Cranks…

…has been established by Scott Sumner, my favorite new blogger. In his latest post, he points out that the author of the leading monetary textbook, Mishkin, is in fact a “monetary crank” because “[t]he sine qua non of a monetary crank is the bizarre belief that even depressions featuring zero interest rates can be magically […]

Murphy Interviewed on New Book

I’ve been doing tons of these, but this one is fairly long so it gave me time to give complete answers to the questions. In the beginning my words are a little distorted, but I think it gets better a little way into it. (I was hearing feedback on my phone in the beginning, not […]

Toward a Review of Tom Woods’ Meltdown

I always thought it was funny when people would use that phrase; e.g. I have a book called Toward a History of Game Theory. I think it means, “If I weren’t so lazy I would write…” For sure, that’s what it means in this blog post. Flat out, Tom’s book Meltdown is freakin’ sweet. I […]