I am sorry to have to report that Bob Wenzel has passed away. He was the editor and publisher of the popular websites Economic Policy Journal and Target Liberty and also published an investment newsletter. I met Bob many years ago at a Mises Institute conference and was immediately impressed by his enthusiasm for Austrian economics and libertarian
Because of the deep division in America between red states and blue states, there has been much talk of secession. Is the United States too big? Would people be happier in smaller communities? Frank Buckley, a distinguished professor at the Scalia Law School, breaks with most of his fellow legal academics by taking these questions seriously. In a
Luke Burgis’s Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (St. Martin’s Press, 2021) is a popular exposition of the theories of the great French thinker René Girard. The book includes a passage that is of great value in understanding contemporary politics. “Obviously, the defense of victims is a good thing. At the same time, it brings
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
The great Wanjiru Njoya has done a podcast for the Tom Woods Show that is available here: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/wanjiru-njoya/
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