“I would like to say to Milton and Anna [co-author of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960]: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,...
So let me tell you about the origins of the French / Ahmani feud AKA the oddest political dustup in recent memory and why libertarians should care about the odd new conservatism that lead to it http://traffic.libsyn.com/jenthelibertarian/episode100.mp3
Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to stop the PLO, led by Yasser Arafat. Against the wishes of the United States, Israeli tanks surrounded Beirut and blasted the city with heavy artillery to force the Palestinians to surrender. However, Arafat was hiding among a heavy...
In 1921, the black dominated Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma was one of the wealthiest in the city. The presence of nice hotels, jewelry shops, and so forth earned it the nickname: "Black Wall Street". By the end of the year, members of the city's white...
We're trying to raise $20,000 for the advance on my next book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. And this week, a generous donor has offered matching funds for your donations. So if you liked Fool's Errand, and you're for the kind of work we do around...
The libertarian movement has been chided by William F. Buckley, Jr., for failing to use its "strategic intelligence" in facing the major problems of our time. We have, indeed, been too often prone to "pursue our busy little seminars on whether or not to demunicipalize...
If you are a libertarian who openly advocates for liberty, you’re almost certainly familiar with this scenario. You’re in a conversation with someone about a random political point, you advocate for expanded freedoms in relation to the subject, and get hit with, “But,...
A person would be hard-pressed to find a day in the Washington D.C. calendar where there isn’t some kind of conference. They’re typically small affairs with free lunches, and more useful at hitting a think tank’s spending quota than influencing policy. As a...
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