The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, March 18, 2022 Many thanks to the Mises Institute and to sponsor Yousif Almoayyed for this opportunity to be with you all today as we consider one of the truly remarkable developments in the history of American central banking, money printing, and credit inflation. On a personal note, “the pursuit […]
The absence of self-awareness amongst the many American officials who are striking a moralistic pose in opposition to the Russian intrusion of Ukraine stands out. For example, Foreign Policy has actually released a column by Col. Yevgeny Vindman, askinghow the world can tolerate a nation like Russia on the United Nations Security Council. His specific […]
It is stated that a variety of years earlier, when Bill Buckley was at the beginning of his profession of college-speaking, and somewhat more tolerant of libertarians than he is today, he when composed two names on the blackboard consequently well dramatized the point that trainees in his audience were being presented with just one […]
The basic history of post-Soviet Russia goes something like this. Throughout the Soviet era, there were no real rates because of the Communists’ perpetual, blanket meddling in financial activity. No one understood what anything was really worth. Not a loaf of bread, not a mine loaded with uranium. It was all owned and redistributed by […]
By: Gary D. Barnett “Today, America would be outraged if U.N. soldiers went into Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is specifically true if they were told that there were an outside danger from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our really presence. It is then that all peoples […]
— noting that countries are built on stories(as they are)– Yuval Noah Harari responds (in part): As a historian I feel sometimes embarrassed or responsible, I do not know what, about what the understanding of history is doing to individuals. … As a historian, I feel ashamed, that this is what my profession, in some […]
When Aquinas was translated into Greek and introduced in the East, he was beloved. – bionic mosquito There’s one for you – starting off a post by quoting myself! Well, in response to this line, a friend emailed me an article: Byzantine Thomism and the True Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue: “Breathing with Both Lungs”. Coincidentally, it was […]
Rothbard shows that Marxism is a religious motion that centers on the violent arrival of a heaven on earth.In today’s post, I wish to talk about an aspect of Murray Rothbard’s criticism of Marxism that is frequently misinterpreted. The topic is important not just for comprehending the essay by Rothbard I’ll be talking about, “Karl […]
In this article, I wish to provide some essential economic thoughts on the reason for war, as war has chronically afflicted human history, especially the more current history. In 1919, the economic expert Ludwig von Mises (1881– 1973) published a book entitled Nation, State, and Economy, presenting an explanation as to why the catastrophic First […]
There is an active, influential, and well-paid minority of experts and politicians in America who obviously think that intensifying dispute in between nuclear powers– and even nuclear war itself– is not truly that huge a deal. These, naturally, are the sorts of individuals who elegant themselves “the adults in the room,” while people who proceed […]
