The Pentagon has failed its annual financial audit for the seventh year in a row. This means the Department of Defense (DOD) has failed every single audit it has been subjected to, but officials hope to have things under control by the time audit No. 11 rolls around. The DOD announced the results on Friday. […]
I expect this is obvious to most of our readers, but I thought I’d just flag it again, given the occasional talk of the decisiveness (or occasionally even “landslide” quality) of President-Elect Trump’s victory: If 1% of voters nationwide switched from Trump to Harris, Harris would have won Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin (where the margin […]
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 […]