Anabaptist Politics in 21st Century USA – Sermon from 11/6/2016
I am grateful to Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship in Berne, IN for asking me to deliver a message the Sunday before Election Day 2016. This is the first sermon I’ve ever written or delivered. There is...
View ArticlePut up your tree and look to the future
I rolled out of bed this morning (but not before checking Facebook on my phone with one eye open to make sure no one was being stupid) and I made myself a hot cup of caffeine-free honeybush pumpkin tea...
View ArticleMises University 2017
When I was an undergrad at Huntington University, the highlight of my summers was the week-long conference-style Mises University program at the Ludwig von Mises Institute down in Auburn, Alabama,...
View ArticleNancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is Under Bombardment
Nancy MacLean’s new book on James Buchanan, public choice economics, and the “radical right” isn’t faring well. On the surface, it’s an awkward project, given that Buchanan wasn’t all that influential...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from Murray Rothbard – Mises U 2017
Thanks for joining me for this series of posts on Mises University 2017. If you missed my first post where explain what this is all about, it’s here. I hope you learn something from this – something...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About the Austrian School – Mises U 2017
This is the first full day of Mises U 2017 and it’s reserved for these 7 essential lectures. Recorded versions of these lectures from past Mises events are probably available on YouTube. (note: I was...
View ArticleSocialism, Inequality, War, Monopoly Power, and Market Failure – All in a...
Today is the beginning of concurrent lectures so I had some options but these are sessions I settled on. I skipped note-taking on a Jeff Herbener lecture about banking since that’s going to overlap...
View ArticleBusiness Cycles, the Environment, Drugs, Fake News, Hayek and Keynes, and the...
Lecture 1 – The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle by Roger Garrison Lecture 2 – Environmental and Resource Economics by Tim Terrell Lecture 3 – The Opioid Epidemic by Mark Thornton Lecture 4 – Fake...
View ArticleEconomics vs. Conventional Wisdom, Plus Some Philosophy – Mises U 2017
I got a late start today, but I was able to squeeze in a couple of lectures from two of my favorite speakers, David Gordon and Tom Woods. Enjoy! Lecture 1 – Apriorism and Positivsm in the Social...
View ArticleHow Government Intervention Benefits Big Business and Ten Things You Should...
This is the last day for my notes on Mises University 2017. I wanted to watch an additional talk by Tim Terrell on product regulation but there were some streaming issues. The first two lectures here...
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