“I’m known as a strange, aloof kind of man,” Salinger told the New York Times, in 1974. “But all I’m trying to do is trying to protect myself and my work.” He passed away yesterday, at the age of ...
This extraordinary film from The Mises Institute—which features Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell—is a clear and compelling analysis of the Fed, and why curbing it is a ...
I have trouble even talking with people about "healthcare reform." The problem is, whenever someone says something like "46 million Americans are uninsured!" (usually followed by a drawn-out sigh of moral outrage), I answer back, "Good to hear. If only we could get more people ...
Sure, we should all give "two (very qualified) cheers" for Irving Kristol (1920-2009), the tireless writer, political eminence grise, and longtime editor at Commentary, Encounter, The Public Interest, and The National Interest, who left this world last Friday. Kristol was, on many levels, ...
In two successive editorials in the Washington Post, George Will has officially announced that it's time to bring our national boondoggles to an end and begin pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Said Will of Iraq: After almost 6 1/2 years, and 4,327 American dead and 31,483 wounded, with a war ...
I should first admit that it took quite a lot for me to actually go see Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's latest about a special Army unit of Jewish avengers, led by a half-Cherokee Good Ol" Boy, who rampage through German-occupied France, killing, scalping, and/or branding top Nazis, ...
Though it's been said that a "liberal" is someone willing to argue against his own position in a dispute, a characteristic quality of the contemporary American variety is that he thinks anyone who disagrees with him is either obstructing democracy or else racist and insane (at any rate, he ...
It will be Twitterized! Leave it to the neocons, their congressional allies, and much of the "conservative" blogosphere to make Barack Obama look like an elder statesman of Burkean inclinations. As the newly color-coded "Green Revolution" unfolds on Twitter and other ...
Once upon a time, there were The Founders. Though tragically trapped in their slave holding and lack of gender and ethnic diversity, these wise fellows envisioned that on the American continent might arise a new nation that would evolve into exactly what we have today. And in order to make this ...
