Today’s NY Times article by Paul Krugman, “ Not the New Deal ,” gave me a few chuckles. With George W. Bush projecting a huge federal government effort to reconstruct Louisiana and Mississippi and other areas affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina , fiscal conservatives are already murmuring . But little stands in the way of this vast
Asia Times has a news item on “ FX Trading “ that mentions Mises and the Austrian business cycle theory. In focusing on cyclical phenomena in China, Jack Crooks reports also from Stratfor that “Beijing’s inability to control local leaders, coupled with a pervasive culture of corruption and nepotism, has left an indelible taint on the government
A very interesting article by Franklin Foer appears in today’s NY Times : “ Once Again, America First .” Foer talks about how conservatives, with their typical distrust of government power, have begun to turn against the Bush administration’s neo-Wilsonian desires to “democratize the Middle East.” The critics include George Will, Patrick Buchanan,
Just a note to bring your attention to an article of mine, written this past May, which was posted today to SOLO HQ. “ Bush Wins! “ is my assessment of the President’s good chances of being re-elected. Here’s an excerpt from the essay: ... if there is anything the last year has shown, it is that events move rapidly, while Bush keeps pace. A parade
My article, Caught Up in The Rapture ,” was just reprinted on the SOLO HQ website. The article was written in June, and it appears in the August-September issue of The Free Radical . In many ways, it is a sequel to my recent essay, “ Bush Wins! ,” providing a kind of sociological underpinning for my view that a Bush victory is more than likely.
As I mentioned here and here , I wrote an entry on “libertarianism” for the International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology . The entry surveys those who have contributed to a libertarian “sociology,” thinkers such as Herbert Spencer, Carl Menger, F. A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Ayn Rand. I am pleased, today, to publish that
I got a little surprise today reading John Leo’s NY Daily News column, “ It’s ‘72 All Over Again for Dems .” Leo focuses on what he believes are the parallels between the failure of welfare liberalism, circa 1972, and the failure of liberalism in the post-9/11 era. He cites Austrian economist and libertarian social theorist Murray Rothbard at one
As Jerome Tuccille famously wrote: “It usually begins with Ayn Rand.” For me, it began in my senior year of high school. I took a year-long “Advanced Placement” course (for college credit) that offered an in-depth survey of American history, from the colonial period to the modern era. My early political views, shaped by both relatives and
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