There was a very good article in the NY Times today that serves as a kind of postscript to David J. Heinrich’s essay WSJ’s Taranto Slanders Ayn Rand Institute . Carol Adelman writes, in her article “ A High Quality of Mercy “ that the claim that the U.S. is “stingy” in foreign aid completely discounts the remarkable level of private aid that flows
A brief obituary appears in the New York Times , courtesy of The Associated Press: “ Robert Heilbroner, 85, Economist and Writer, Dies .” Absent from this brief death notice is, perhaps, one of Heilbroner’s most famous formulations. Upon the collapse of 20th century socialism, he said: “ Mises was right
Today, Christopher Shea has written a “Critical Faculties” piece for The Boston Globe focusing on “ Ayn Rand’s Campus Radicals ,” offering further evidence of the proliferation of Rand scholarship. He mentions my work and the work of other Rand scholars, as well as the important role of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies . (He cites a JARS essay by
Today’s NY Times article by Paul Krugman, “ Not the New Deal ,” gave me a few chuckles. With George W. Bush projecting a huge federal government effort to reconstruct Louisiana and Mississippi and other areas affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina , fiscal conservatives are already murmuring . But little stands in the way of this vast
Asia Times has a news item on “ FX Trading “ that mentions Mises and the Austrian business cycle theory. In focusing on cyclical phenomena in China, Jack Crooks reports also from Stratfor that “Beijing’s inability to control local leaders, coupled with a pervasive culture of corruption and nepotism, has left an indelible taint on the government
I got a little surprise today reading John Leo’s NY Daily News column, “ It’s ‘72 All Over Again for Dems .” Leo focuses on what he believes are the parallels between the failure of welfare liberalism, circa 1972, and the failure of liberalism in the post-9/11 era. He cites Austrian economist and libertarian social theorist Murray Rothbard at one
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