[Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian (Princeton University Press, 2025; 279pp.]
Quinn Slobodian is a professor of international history at Boston University, so you might expect that he has at least some ability for clear and logically exact arguments. If you expected that, you would be mistaken.
One of the most difficult fallacies to recognize, define, and combat is that of a false analogy—two things may share some similarities and are assumed to be alike in other respects without sufficient evidence. Sometimes a false analogy is obvious. For example, tennis and soccer both use balls and are played on rectangular fields, therefore, they are the same. Other false analogies, however, are more subtle and often begin with, “It’s like…” or “Life is like…”
The Trump administration has tried to cultivate a reputation for preferring “Main Street over Wall Street.” Unfortunately, this image is belied by the administration’s renewed push for artificially low interest rates and monetary inflation. By embracing these policies, Trump has put himself squarely in the camp of “Wall Street over Main Street.”
PROPHETIC STATESMANSHIP: HARRY JAFFA, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
by Edward J. Erler
Encounter Books, 2025; 228 pp.
How Executive Power Can Dismantle the Deep State
Patrick Newman
Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Steve and Cassandra Torello
Rothbard believed in a unified science of liberty that could provide the theoretical edifice of Austrian economics, the empirical illustrations of government failures and how the free market works, and of course, the strategy for actually achieving free market libertarianism in our time.
In this interview, we explore Dr. Hanke’s recent research on the effects of covid policies and his continued work on money and interest.
Sales of previously owned homes in March fell 5.9% from February to 4.02 million units. That’s the slowest March sales pace since 2009.
