Gore Vidal is an icon in the mainstream educated left (not the MSNBC version we see on TV), and he has done an admirable job in many publications of remaining even, thoughtful, and respectable as a reporter and thinker. One of his more interesting undertakings was his work with Timothy McVeigh, interviewing the terrorist and…
DetailsYour lecture of the week is a documentary about the most notorious assassination in human history. Conpiracyyyyyyyyy…
Your lecture of the week this week is a debate of a panel of all stars. Is Catholic Just War Theory correct or should we assume a complete pacifist position concerning war and self defense? Or do all of these guys miss the point and does Just War Theory render us so close to pacifism…
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Bob Murphy NAILS IT: A well-known free-market economist recently submitted an essay to me, asking that I publish it on my blog. Let me reproduce a sample of it and then tell you how I answered him: The continuing slowness of economic growth in high-income economies has prompted soul-searching among economists. They have looked to…
DetailsJulian Assange speaks: As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun. It…
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