For those (especially libertarians) who have not seen the Australian satirical comedy The Hollowmen, you are missing out. These clips will hopefully entice you to watch more. I imagine they are not far off from what goes on in Canberra, DC, London or anywhere else. The remarks about the obesity problem being a good thing [...]
After listening to Peter Schiff at the Austrian Scholars Conference for an hour and a half, did I listen to his lengthy Google presentation? Absolutely.
I have been meaning to write about this for a while now. My daughter attends public school, which I aim to have her out of this year so she can be home-schooled (we’ll see). Anyhow, over dinner conversations I ask her about her day and what she learned. She usually says she went to the [...]
From the LRC blog comes this great clip from The Americanization of Emily. Are there movies like this nowadays?
I have been listening to lectures titled “Thinking about Capitalism” from The Teaching Company. There are 36 lectures and they are very good so far. I just listened to one on religious tolerance and Voltaire, whom I had never studied but found extremely fascinating. He has some very well-known quotes (e.g., “I do not agree with what [...]
There are many audios that have been added on Mises.org lately from the 1990s. They have been harder to find amidst all of the ASC lectures (including mine). I was listening to this one yesterday by George Koether, who knew Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. It was pretty good but I especially liked the part where he [...]
Being a libertarian means explaining and justifying your beliefs to others, beliefs they have most likely never heard. Since the views are not as common as other political views, the libertarian must also have more knowledge in more areas. In short, it is not the path of least resistance. Here are some areas the libertarian [...]
Many (Neoclassical) economists view the economy as an engine that, when finely tuned and with a proper driver in control, can achieve what they term allocative and productive efficiency. Rothbard, prescient as always, discusses efficiency in an excellent article, “The Myth of Efficiency.” It is one of those articles every economist should read. And [...]
