What Anthony Bourdain Taught Me About Life and Liberty

Some days he would be in a French bistro sampling the world’s cutting-edge cuisine. On others, he would be seated on a plastic chair in a poverty-stricken district of Saigon, while he discussed the region’s past, present, and future over a bowl of the working man’s pho. When I look back on my formative years, wherever in the world he was, Anthony Bourdain was on my television screen.

Luis María Pastor Copo: A Spanish Forerunner of the Austrian School

In 1952, the British economist Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson discovered that the Spanish scholastics of the seventeenth century, gathered around the School of Salamanca, developed very similar ideas to those that centuries later would be found within the Austrian School of Economics. These included the subjective theory of value, the dynamic vision of competition, ideas surrounding time preference, and the harmful effects of inflation.

Trumping to Serfdom

Ryan Murphy of SMU has confirmed what F.A. Hayek wrote decades ago. It turns out Washington D.C. has more psychopaths per capita than anyplace else in the country. Insert my shock face here.

The best chapter of the seminal “Road to Serfdom” is ‘Why the Worst get on Top,’ where Hayek wrote,

How the United Kingdom Became a Police State

This article will demonstrate how the United Kingdom has steadily become a police state over the past twenty years, weaponizing its institutions against the people and employing Orwellian techniques to stop the public from seeing the truth. It will demonstrate, contrary to official narratives, that both overall levels of crime and violent crime have been increasing, not decreasing, as the size of the state in the UK has gotten bigger.