As always, what’s the point of trying to get through the long Russian novels without writing out the alleged insights? The Brothers Karamazov was much more difficult to follow than Crime and Punishment, which means it requires another read that I probably won’t get around to.
Yet Another Attempt To Make Sense of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ Read More »
University of Exeter professor Marc-William Palen’s Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, is out. What a great book. While left wingers in the 19th century didn’t invent the natural act of trade, they had a tendency to embrace it as a way of avoiding war and imperialist tendencies.
Book Review: Marc-William Palen’s Crucial ‘Pax Economica’ Read More »
AI is going to render exponentially more of us really stupid as we get to shed even more formerly essential knowledge. The deep in thought of today and tomorrow will go nuts, but people will be incredibly prosperous and happy.
Opposite What You’re Told, Rising Ignorance Is Very Bullish Read More »
Proponents of the global warming theory claim that the warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The theory implies that the primitive living conditions that preceded the discovery of commercial uses for fossil fuels at least gifted the living with fresh air.
What Would the Global Warming Science Have Said About Dostoevsky’s Russia? Read More »
The bigger the crack-up the better, because the big errors signal enormous information-creation that will bring us closer to the kind of knowledge that represents enormous progress and wealth.
Would Sam Bankman-Fried Face Prison Time If FTX Had Been Worth $32 Million? Read More »
Money isn’t abundant in Palo Alto but scarce in Baltimore because the state decreed it so, rather money in circulation is production determined. It’s a market phenomenon every bit as powerful as the production that drives it. There is in fact a free market for money, and it’s exacting.
Monetarism Is Suffocated By Its Endless Contradiction Read More »
It only took Javier Milei two days in office to err in monumental fashion. If we ignore just how damaging currency devaluations are (the write-up doesn’t) to individuals, we can’t ignore that they’re a mindless non sequitur as is on the matter of country debt.
Javier Milei Must Sideline Economists, Embrace Henry Hazlitt Read More »
Imagine how staggeringly poor we would be absent all the mechanization and subsequent productive leaps born of oil’s discovery as a crucial source of fuel.
Contra the Experts, ‘Energy Dependence’ Doesn’t Shrink ‘National Wealth’ Read More »
When Kimbal (brother of Elon) Musk brought the idea of an online directory of businesses to the head of the Toronto Star, he was dismissed haughtily for believing with his brother that the internet would replace the Yellow Pages. The present is always the past. This is lost on Lina Khan.
Lina Khan Hasn’t Found An Antitrust Violation, She’s Found the Past Read More »
History says the governmental incompetence that Jenkins so routinely and expertly reveals doesn’t stop at our borders. Maybe past government waste will finally bring with it an upside.
Potential Upside To All the Past Federal Waste? Read More »
