"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking" -JMK - Matthew Yglesias criticizes conse...

Bryan Caplan has an interesting discussion of what he calls "liberal conflation". The discussion wanders, but it seems pretty clea...

Reason.com selects some winners ... all very clever, and interestingly enough, all playing on the theme of bending over backwards to conform...

Tim Lacy offers a great quote from Tocqueville on the inability to pursue comprehensive analysis, and the social basis of our beliefs.  I t...

Oh, I had one more macro issue I wanted to pose to my Austrian readers - how do Austrians generally deal with double-dip recessions? It'...

Scott Sumner has an interesting Great Recession/Great Depression comparision : "It’s worth thinking about where we are in the Great Rec...

For guys that excoriate Keynesians for being skeptical about saving in the rarest and most peculiar of circumstances (ie - really only in a ...

Daniel discusses "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" below , and solicits responses.  Here's mine. My concern about this is the ex...

So what do readers think of this "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" business? A couple weeks ago, I had a quick post supporting the cr...

Maybe this was common knowledge, but I didn't realize it until I read an essay of his last night called "Why Socialism?" (1949...