A professor at a university interviewed for an administrative position at another college (can’t name him for obvious reasons). The job interview was conducted by an outside professional firm, lasted 30 minutes, and he reports that it was among the most intense experiences of his life. He still wakes at night reviewing his answers in his mind.
Classify this under “articles that need to be researched and written (preferably for Mises.org)”. In your local grocery store you will find precisely one French wine with a charming label and an understandable name. It is Red Bicyclette (and the coming site ). It comes from a winery in the South that is wholly owned by Gallo. By being a private
A Thanksgiving visit to my Texas hometown provokes the question: it is possible to adore the people and enterprising ethics of a place while abhorring its politics of nonchalant imperialism? There are plenty of theoretical problems with combining laissez-faire economics with the belief that the Texas political establishment ought to otherwise run
It’s a credit to book buyers that Thomas Wood’s new work has turned out to be one of the fastest selling titles in the history of the Conservative Book Club . The book in question is The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery, 2004) by this historian at Suffolk Community College and adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute (he
When taxes are raised in order to fund Social Security “privatization” (yes those are scare quotes), as David Brooks suggests will in fact happen, who should get the blame for having laid the groundwork? (thanks LRCblog
Tyler Cowen breaks with the pack (or pact) and explains the implausible and potentially disastrous economics of Social Security privatization—a subject the Mises Institute has been publishing for at least 7 years . Actually, that privatization would require vast debt and/or tax increases should have been obvious since the May 1996 issue of the
Report: Iraq War Keeping Thousands Out Of Unemployment Line WASHINGTON, DC—A Department of Labor report praised the positive effect the Iraq War has had on the strained U.S. job market, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao said Monday. “A whopping 140,000 U.S. citizens are gainfully employed as military personnel in Iraq,” Chao said. “The war is not
“He who espouses the institution of slavery,” wrote Mises in Liberalism , “never stops to reflect that he himself could be a slave.” This quotion comes to mind when slogging through the very long essay by David Brooks (” How to Reinvent the G.O.P .”) in the NYTimes Magazine, which ends with a stirring call for the government to rob late teens of
Here is an unapologetic defense of the Luddites: they were right before their time, says the Christian Science Monitor. In this news article, not a single dissenting voice is quoted against the claim that “automation” is destroying jobs and leaving everyone worse off. Not a word is given about the implication of the case against machines: that
Mandatory evacuations : if you don’t leave, do they arrest you?
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