[Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear (Harvard University Press, 2024; 176 pp.)]

Tel Aviv vows to investigate the leaks, but is untroubled by the rapes themselves. 

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported an 11 percent drop in visitors year-on-year in June, followed by a 6.7 drop in August.

Bill Kristol: “I think a lot of the younger Democrats are quite impressive.”

New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Libertarian Studies. The QJAE is one of the top international outlets for scholarly research within the Austrian School of economics, publishing high-quality papers on a range of topics within the Austrian School. The JLS, founded by Murray Rothbard, is an interdisciplinary journal advancing the libertarian intellectual tradition. 

The rise of state pensions inevitably coincides with the destruction of peaceful, voluntary, and responsible institutions of civil society. This is no accident. Long before such schemes appear, violence steadily erodes capital through taxation, inflation, and regulation. When the remnants of liberty begin to fade, the state emerges as a self-declared savior, offering a solution to the very crisis it engineered.

There is a certain genius in simplicity and clarity. Conceptual and written clarity is one of the aspects of the writing of Mises and Rothbard that I have appreciated most, even while discussing complex concepts. In teaching economics to laymen, simple examples and illustrations that both correspond with reality (not disanalogies) and communicate concepts with clarity are essential. These examples can be historical, current, or even imaginary.