Radley Balko, a defender of liberty best known for his book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces , has been fired by the Washington Post . Balko writes: “ So after nine years, I’m being let go by the Washington Post. This is disappointing but not surprising. In recent years, the Opinion leadership has made it
Today would have been the ninety-third birthday of Burt Blumert, one of the greatest personalities of the modern libertarian movement. Burt was the indispensable man behind the scenes and was a key figure in the Mises Institute, the Center for Libertarian Studies, the Rothbard Rockwell Report, and LewRockwell.com. He was one of Murray Rothbard’s
It was a shock to learn last night that my dear friend Paul Cantor had passed away. He was a great Shakespeare scholar and in Shakespeare’s Rome and Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy he showed that Shakespeare had a profound knowledge of the reasons for the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. In the book, he compared Shakespeare’s interpretation of
I am sorry to have to report the death of another old friend, Gary North, who passed away a few days after his eightieth birthday. He was by training an economic historian and had a strong commitment to Austrian economics. He greatly admired Mises and Rothbard. He once asked Mises how he had been able to publish his famous article of 1920 on
Today would have been Murray Rothbard’s ninety-sixth birthday. He was an unforgettable friend whose immense knowledge of many different fields was unsurpassed, in my experience. In a lecture on the Austrian theory of the business cycle, he mentioned the common objection that the expansion of bank credit might have no effect if investors
The New York Times published on March 4 a hostile obituary notice of Gary North. Although the writer, Sam Roberts, mentions that North held a PhD in economic history from UC Riverside, the entire stress of the article is on North’s religious views rather than his scholarly achievements. He published an article in the Journal of Political Economy
Raymond Geuss is an influential political philosopher, and I hope to review his new book, Not Thinking Like a Liberal ,(Harvard, 2022) on another occasion. Geuss is a confirmed enemy of liberalism, both classical and modern, He dislikes both Rawls and Nozick; in fact, his attitude toward Rawls falls little short of hatred. This interferes with
Radley Balko, un defensor de la libertad más conocido por su libro Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces , ha sido despedido por el Washington Post . Balko escribe: «Después de nueve años, el Washington Post me ha despedido. Esto es decepcionante pero no sorprendente. En los últimos años, la dirección del diario ha
Hoy habría sido el noventa y tres cumpleaños de Burt Blumert, una de las mayores personalidades del movimiento libertario moderno. Burt era el hombre indispensable entre bastidores y fue una figura clave en el Instituto Mises, el Centro de Estudios Libertarios y LewRockwell.com. Era uno de los amigos más cercanos de Murray Rothbard; y cuando lo
Fue un shock enterarme anoche de que mi querido amigo Paul Cantor había fallecido. Fue un gran estudioso de Shakespeare y en Shakespeare’s Rome y Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy demostró que Shakespeare tenía un profundo conocimiento de las razones del ascenso y la caída de la República romana. En este último libro, comparó la interpretación de
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