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==> I have a long but very wide-ranging conversation with John Bush on “Rise Up Radio.” I think it starts at the 2:00:00 mark or so. He is going to be one of the Roasters at the upcoming Porcfest extravaganza, and so he and I take some shots at each other at the end, etc. […]

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* Here’s an interesting video in which Christopher Hitchens claims to disprove the existence of God in fewer than 10 minutes. I actually did like his argument about North Korea. It’s a viewpoint so foreign from mine that it’s hard for me to even formulate a response. * Speaking of a purely rational morality, David […]

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Some of these have been sitting on my browser for so long, they started paying rent… FORGOT IN INITIAL POST: This YouTube video of Superman vs. the Hulk is hilarious. I’m not talking about the video itself, which you don’t even need to watch. I’m talking about the comments. I scrolled through five pages of […]

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* I have been saving up posts on the alleged “austerity” over in the UK and Europe, but the news is moving fast and I’d better just send you to the relevant links. So first of all, here is Tyler Cowen showing an awesome graph from Veronique de Rugy detailing nominal government spending in various […]

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* If you’re the type of person who thinks it’s obvious that the Titanic should have had more lifeboats, then you’re obviously not an economist. (I’m not being snarky; I’ve often thought along the same lines as Steve Landsburg on this topic.) * When people criticize my theories on private police and judicial services, they […]

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==> 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 […]

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==> This article about “how modern men are trained to hate women” is actually really insightful. It’s supposed to be entertaining and has lots of absurd photos, but I actually think the guy makes some good points. ==> Even though he and I don’t see eye-to-eye on everything in the “free banking” argument, I must […]

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* Here is a trailer for a novel (The Eagle Has Crashed) where the author had hired me to review his economic projections. * David R. Henderson brings our attention to a truly shocking op ed by Stanley Fish regarding the alleged double standard on the Bill Maher / Rush Limbaugh / using-naughty-words-to-describe-women issue. * […]