November 20, 2009 – 7:05 am
Here in OZ the David Letterman show comes on around 1215am. It is not a show I watch but for some reason I found myself watching the “Stupid Human Tricks” segment. There was a girl, maybe 12, who jumped on a pogo stick and played the violin. Dave made a joke that she should drop [...]
September 10, 2009 – 1:05 pm
After a busy teaching term and writing more on my thesis I am finally back. I have many posts that I have to catch up on…
Now that Human Action just celebrated its 60th anniversary I thought I would link to some recent items on Mises’ magnum opus:
Some FEE videos on the impact Human Action has [...]
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 [...]
February 11, 2009 – 2:03 pm
I first heard Tom Woods speak at the ASC in 2006. I was immediately impressed with his oratory skills and humor. And now here he is on Glenn Beck, as articulate as ever. At the Rothbard Graduate Seminar he invited us all to his beautiful home. A genuinely nice guy.
By the way, I just found [...]
January 29, 2009 – 11:53 pm
Who didn’t see this coming? From the Pew Research Center:
In 2008, for the first time ever, more Americans relied on the Internet for national and international news than on newspapers. In December 2008, 40% of those surveyed said they get most of their news on the Internet, up from 24% in September 2007. 35% still mainly read newspapers, and 70% say television is [...]
January 9, 2009 – 4:43 am
I absolutely enjoy anything that points out commonly held ideas and exposing them as false, i.e., destroying myths. Murray Rothbard was great at this. If you look through his articles, you’ll see how many had “myth” in the title. Here’s a quick (but only partial) list:
Myths of the Cold War
The Myth of Efficiency
Myth and Truth [...]
January 6, 2009 – 11:43 pm
Happy New Year to readers of this blog. It’s been a while since my last post due to the holidays, and now I am getting back to focussing on writing my PhD thesis. I will still try to post almost daily, but don’t hold me to it.
In case you haven’t been over to Mises.org lately, they [...]
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December 25, 2008 – 10:07 pm
From Tom DiLorenzo on the Lewrockwell.com blog:
While channel surfing I ran across Paul Krugman anwering questions at the National Press Club. One question was what he thought of the idea of the government issuing “stimulus checks” with disappearing ink that would disappear in 30 days, forcing everyone to spend the money right away. Naturally, he thought [...]
November 27, 2008 – 7:07 am
I have submitted a few articles to lewrockwell.com, all of which (so far) have been approved. The first one I submitted, “Stats and the State,” has not been published yet. However, the article title appears on the lewrockwell.com homepage today (and it appears over the Thanksgiving break). But the title links to the article “Superman [...]
November 25, 2008 – 11:45 pm
Yesterday I went to my daughter’s primary school (in OZ) for a parents and teachers night. She will start school next year. This is the second one I’ve gone to–the other was in England–and I just wonder if I was the only one sitting there viewing how much the State is involved in every detail [...]
