Last week, I posted about a new Esperanto film I made, which I submitted to an Esperanto film festival (the 6th American Good Film Festival). (It’s really short: under five minutes long. And don’t worry: it has English subtitles.) It’s called “Mesaĝo en botelo,” or “Message in a bottle.” My kids (and a couple of […]
Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. “I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief,” she wrote on Bluesky. “I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go […]
As Joseph Schumpeter noted, markets need “creative destructi Read More Article from Mises Institute Mises InstituteThe Mises Institute’s website is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of Austrian economics, libertarian philosophy, and classical liberalism. Serving as both an educational platform and a research resource, the site offers a vast array of articles, academic papers, books, and […]
Donald Trump is a strong believer in protective tariffs, and this is very bad news for those of us who support the free market. In Trump’s opinion, tariffs are a great idea. Here is what he said about them in an interview last month: “Trump has proposed a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on all imports […]
From Judge David Alan Ezra’s decision in Penders v. St. Edward’s Univ. (W.D. Tex.), decided in March but just recently posted to Westlaw; the case has since settled, for an amount that to my knowledge has not been made public: Penders is a white male who formerly worked as the head baseball coach of SEU […]
Amy LePore joins Bob to talk a Read More Article from Mises Institute Mises InstituteThe Mises Institute’s website is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of Austrian economics, libertarian philosophy, and classical liberalism. Serving as both an educational platform and a research resource, the site offers a vast array of articles, academic papers, books, and multimedia […]
[Editor’s note: In this article, originally published in October 1984, Murray Rothbard critiques a problem with the economics of Republicans and conservatives. Namely, its proponents think they can have it both ways by cutting tax rates and increasing government spending, while somehow not running up huge deficits. Much of this is based on the so-called […]
Making America Healthy Again, one Big Mac at a time: First it was the Kamala Harris claim that she worked at McDonald’s, a probably true but not totally proven story about a job she took back in college, told to try to make her seem middle-class and relatable. Then it was Donald Trump’s shift at a […]