I was pleased recently to read an article by Ira Katz extolling the virtues of Sir Harry Flashman, V.C. The Flashman Papers , a series of books written by the late George MacDonald Fraser, are a personal favorite. Unfortunately, one seldom sees any reference to this enormously underrated set of historical novels. Mr. Katz charitably describes the
The following is the transcript from a talk delivered at the 2014 Houston Mises Circle . Video of the talk is available here . I’d like to speak with you today not about the NSA or any of the vast federal spying apparatus that has so eroded our personal and financial privacy; nor about the federal healthcare bureaucracy that undermines our medical
Join the Mises Institute as we welcome more than 130 students from all over the world to our Auburn campus! Mises U 2014 is a full week of Austrian scholarship that can’t be found anywhere else on the planet. Coming tonight at 8:00 PM EST (7:00 PM Central Time), Tom Woods will give the opening lecture for Mises University. Join us online to see
[Editor’s Note: This is a transcript from Jeff Deist’s interview with Tom Woods on June 3, 2014.] WOODS: I want to talk about the time you spent as Ron Paul’s chief of staff. I can’t imagine that could be dull. So first of all, what was that like, and how would you compare it to what the likely experience of other politicians’ chiefs of staff
Today’s dose of schadenfreude comes courtesy of former pol David Bonior, who “represented” a US congressional district near Detroit for 26(!) years. Mr. Bonior may be an ex-Congressman, but against all odds has chosen to remain in Washington DC during his retirement. And it’s an active retirement, since he has poured some of his personal wealth
The European Court of Justice in Brussels issued a preliminary ruling today that appears to have underlying implications for intellectual property and defamation concepts. Under this ruling, search engines like Google operating in Europe may be required to remove links to online content deemed unflattering by a user-- even if true. And while the
Mark Thornton discusses Martin Wolf’s support for continued easy money policy, and also the latest push by the central bankers and their friends in the media to try to convince us that rising prices are good for
Thankfully the wise Swiss recently voted 76% against an initiative to impose the highest minimum wage in the world, thus slowing momentum for a growing worldwide “living wage” movement. Note that this initiative took the form of a national referendum and a popular vote, rather than a decentralized process undertaken by individual cantons. This
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