A hurricane develops over the Atlantic, a thunderstorm over the midwest. A dust devil whirls like a dervish across a vacant lot. A flock of starlings dances, amoeba-like in the sky. A hive of bees finds the best nectar sources. A colony of ants finds food, establishes trails, and builds its nest . A...
Welcome to my new blog here on Mises.org. It's been a few years since I've had the inspiration to speak to the world on a regular basis. When I last blogged regularly, the future looked brighter than ever as capitalism was spreading across the planet in a seemingly-unstoppable avalanche. China...
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We The People
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Xtapolapocetl
on Tue, Apr 21 2009
Filed under: politics, capitalism, socialism, tyranny, markets, economics, freedom
President Obama, after spending the better part of the last month insisting that his so-called economic stimulus package be passed immediately (maintaining that failure to do so would spell utter ruin for the country), is going to wait until tomorrow to sign the bill, which was passed last Friday. The...
The following is essentially the text of an email that I recently sent to a friend who'd asked me if I thought that senior members of the former Bush regime should be prosecuted for war crimes because of the use of torture as an instrument of national policy. He also asked what I thought about the...
I got an email today from an old friend asking whether the signature line of an email which I'd sent him was really something that which Thomas Jefferson had written. What follows is more-or-less my response to him (slightly edited to leave out personal information). Actually, so far as I know, Jefferson...