My Latest Budding Intellectual Passion…
is anti-war rhetoric. Here is one of the books I will be reading over break:
The Best Man in Washington…
lays it all out for you on Wikileaks: A government who won’t let you keep its officials accountable by way of recording is surely to be corrupt. There will be a crackdown, even if this leak wasn’t even that big of a deal. And don’t think the government wont put measures in place such that…
DetailsReframing Our Labels
A column from LewRockwell this morning spoke to me of the true political labels that matter: Authoritarian versus Libertarian… The question isn’t whether you’re a liberal or conservative. Who can say what either of those labels means anymore? Like “Christian,” a liberal (or a conservative) can be anything he wants to be and still claim…
DetailsComment on Wikileaks
I bet you can guess how I feel about the free dissemination of information about governments, no matter how secret they are purported to be. The most pertinent commentary (slanted in favor of what I believe) that I have seen on the matter is from Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com: The WikiLeaks disclosure has revealed not…
DetailsThe Guys I Take Cues From…
are easiest to observe in video form. Here are a few of them I have found in the past few weeks… Walter E. Williams proposes the idea that voting should be like shareholding in a company, in that you get as many votes as your taxes pay for. I doubt most people would bite, but…
DetailsAustrian Economics…
are the topic of your lectures for this week…
Tom Woods, first on Keynesian predictions versus what actually happened:
And then on the myths surrounding our monetary system: