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What can I say to persuade you to click on this link and have a look? This has to be the finest book from one of the great American thinkers and writers of the 20th century, a man who has been tragically neglected and forgotten: Frank Chodorov. Every essay in this book, called Out of Step , which is also available in print , is a gem, from its

The Hayek Foundation of Argentine has a new site .

Many churches during the season of Lent hold a “hunger banquet” to illustrate the problem of poverty in the developing world. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but does guilt manipulation really solve the problem or does it cause people to grasp for straws or actually favor dangerous policies? Here is the way the banquet works. Everyone pays one

Sometimes the regular news reads just like The Onion , such as this one on the growing controversy about a new liquor drink called Spykes . Apparently many people think that this sweet drink in a nail-polish-style bottle is, gasp, being marketed to young people. Anheuser-Busch says that this is ridiculous, why they’ve done no marketing at all! And

This is one you might not expect, one that will leave you speechless. From the NYT review of Doherty’s new book on libertarianism, we find that Bush has been using a “free-market approach to rebuilding Iraq” but that this “has proven

When I first read Chodorov’s Rise and Fall of Society, excerpted today as the Daily Article, I was just blown away at the clarity of argument and the precision of the analytics concerning government, society, and economy. How much could be achieved if a student read this one book sometime in the first years of college? It would immunize him or her

An interesting case of the failure of micro-central planning comes from Shaliuhe, China, as reported in the Economist . This rural area has the misfortune of being ruled by local bureaucrats who believe they know more than the price system, and so picked a sure investment for the locals: cows. They looked West and saw Beijing with its rising

There is total frenzy in the arts community over the story that Joshua Bell played in a D.C. subway and was all but ignored ( Washington Post ). But no one seems to have noted the obvious: these are mostly government employees. Can we really expect them to recognize

I find Iraq news painful to read so I was glad for this summary of the current situation in Iraq, from Antiwar.com, but can you believe that author’s claim that “cuts to state subsidies” for industry contributes to inflation? Oh well, it still contains good information. Nowhere on Earth is there a worse refugee crisis than in Iraq today. According

The New York Times reports on the thrilling, spectacular, amazing, happy happy news that the Communist Party USA has donated its complete archives to New York University. What a treasure trove of glorious history here! The cache contains decades of party history including founding documents, secret code words, stacks of personal letters, smuggled