Frank Bruni saw a woman swoon and sway back in the 1980s, and the recent memory of it caused him to call for increased federal support for liberal arts education.

Mark Thornton comments in WND‘s article on recent cyber-security breaches. Thornton notes that, when breaches do occur, “Most, if not all of the time, the customer isn’t harmed; it’s the company that’s harmed. As a result, banks and retailers seek out enhanced security so criminals are less likely to be able to detect patterns.”

Thanks to Xiong Yue for providing Chinese subtitles to Philipp Bagus’s 2014 talk at the European Parliament about the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are English subtitles too, which are very helpful because the EP has managed to mess up the audio in multiple places. 

Presented to the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group at the European Parliament, live streamed on November 12, 2014. 

(Although the video thumbnail is not showing, the video does work as of the time of posting.)

Thanks to the German Mises Institute:

John Cochran’s article “​Why the Government Hasn’t Yet Managed to Destroy the Economy“ is now “Warum es dem Staat noch nicht gelungen ist, die Wirtschaft an die Wand zu fahren.“

Mises Daily Friday by Ryan McMaken:

Can we have political liberty without first having economic freedom? Is the form of government predetermined by the form of economic organization? At first blush the opposite would seem to be self-evident, i.e., that our form of government determines all else, including our economic structure. But Mises advises otherwise. In Human Action (page 283 of the Mises Institute’s scholars’ edition), Mises explains (my emphasis):