Lew Rockwell wrote: Thanks to Bud Bronstein for this piece by Kate Zernike from the NY Times , “Movement of the Moment Looks to Long-Ago Texts.” Catch the ideological presentism. Instead of just reading the latest approved tomes and today’s issue of the Times, people are learning from “obscure” old books by dead people. The Tea Party “has
In the Paul Krugman column which Israel Curtis posted about yesterday, our generation’s second coming of Keynes shows just how thoroughly he embraces what Ludwig von Mises called the “ Inflationist View of History ” by espousing the ridiculous notion that the late 19th century, a time of unprecedented economic growth, was dominated by a “Long
A mere ten days ago, public awareness of Hayek’s classic, The Road to Serfdom , exploded . The Mises Academy, with the reflexes and nimbleness that you’ll only find with an online, consumer-driven university, has turned on a dime to seize the moment. In the weeks that follow, thousands of conservatives will be receiving a moving and powerful
From the Dirty Dancing Wikipedia article Later, Baby discovers that Johnny’s dance partner Penny Johnson ( Cynthia Rhodes ) is distraught over being pregnant by Robbie Gould ( Max Cantor ), the womanizing waiter who is dating and cheating on Lisa, Baby’s sister. Baby learns that Robbie plans to do nothing about the pregnancy as he says “Some
Apple recently passed up Microsoft in market capitalization to become the world’s most valuable technology company. Check out this nice New York Times chart , which tracks the two companies’ market caps since 1990. Cursor over the little “i” flags to see company-history
Apparently Bernanke is not able to rule the Federal Reserve System with as tight of an iron fist as Greenspan did. Some soundness of thought is creeping in between his fingers. From the New York Times : A lone dissenter on the Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee warned Friday that the central bank’s monetary strategy could backfire and touch
In Theory and History , Chapter 11 , Mises discusses the two kinds of causation resorted to by man. First he declares: “The natural sciences do not know anything about final causes;” “Final cause” is Aristotelean terminology for a purpose or end; or as Aristotle put it, “that for the sake of which a thing is done”. Mises goes on: “inquiry and
As discussed in my last post , the ancient Greek poet Hesiod was granted his superior poetical powers in a miraculous encounter with the Muses. At least that is how Hesiod himself says it happened. We may not take his word for it, but we should be glad that he (or one of his successors), unlike most of his poetical contemporaries, took the trouble
And just like with the Climategate emails, the greens have hammered it in themselves with a star-studded ad that portrays the totalitarian mindset so perfectly and so disgustingly, that it stands alone, and without comment as a self-indictment. Warning: the video is very graphic in terms of gore. The backlash was so quick and so universal, that
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