A Misesian on the School Board
Jim Fedako sits on the school board but has a crisis of faith.
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The Great Conservative Hoax
Jacob Heilbrunn, writing in the Washington Monthly, uses various criticisms that leading conservatives have made of Bush to proclaim a new "conservative crackup." In the course of his narrative, he rehearses the same old ho-hum history of postwar American conservatism, tells the same old story of how intriguing it is that conservatives are upset with the person they put into power, and then comes to the same old conclusion, that conservatism is deluded, and that we should all be leftists like him.
Classical Liberal Exploitation Theory
In the popular academic mind, the doctrine of class-conflict seems to be inextricably linked to the particular Marxist version of the idea.
The Olive Bar, the State, and Rule Ambiguity
There I stood with eight olive pits in my cheek, talking to the checkout lady at the grocery store as she waved my half-pound container of antipasto over the scanner light. All the while, I hoped she that she wouldn't notice or ask why I sounded like I had marbles in mouth.
Block Puts His Opponents on the Hot Seat
This is the foreword to a forthcoming collection of Critical Essays of Walter Block’s, assembled by Glavan Bogdan of Libertas Pub
Mythology of the Minimum Wage
Once again politicians and pundits are calling for increases in the legal minimum wage, writes Doug MacKenzie.
Don’t Do It, Google
As Microsoft prepares for the new release of the new version of its browser, Google is grousing about one of Microsoft’s marketing strategies
How China’s monetary policy drives world commodity prices
Frank Shostak explains how monetary expansion and the rigid exchange rate drive commodity prices up.
Democrats Manufacture “Economic Crimes”
Democrats are calling for criminal investigations into oil company actions, new wealth transfers from taxpayers and consumers to the ethanol lobby, and worse. Bill Anderson explains.
