Taki Theodoracopulos isn’t generally considered a great fan of the government of Israel. But did you know that he once volunteered to fight for Israel in the Six-Days’ War? Not long thereafter, though, the great Yehudi Menuhin told Taki to take another look at the plight of the Palestinians. What he saw prompted him to [...]
Probably not. A few days back, Tim asked if I would solicit Paul Cantor’s opinion on Clare Asquith’s arguments for a crypto-Catholic Shakespeare. Professor Cantor said he hadn’t read her book but has been skeptical (to say the least) of the claim whenever it’s been made by others. He referred me to [...]
In an hour or so I have to catch a shuttle from Auburn, Ala. to the Atlanta airport. Get back to D.C. around 7 pm — and then I have to leave again at 3 am(!), taking Amtrak to Connecticut. Needless to say, I wouldn’t be taking a 3 am train if I had [...]
And you know what that means. James Bovard looks at the BBC’s report that Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon has “said that in order to prevent casualties among Israeli soldiers battling Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, villages should be flattened by the Israeli air force before ground troops moved in.” According to Ramon, “All those [...]
The title of this post comes from an essay by Robert Nisbet that first ran in Commentary circa September 1961 and was later reprinted as a pamphlet in 1978 by the Institute for Humane Studies. To the best of my knowledge, it hasn’t been collected anywhere — there are several important Nisbet essays, including [...]
I’ve been enjoying the Paul Cantor “Commerce and Culture” seminar at the Mises Institute so much so far that I haven’t set aside any time for blogging. Catch up on what I haven’t been writing, though, by following the live webcasts of Professor Cantor’s lectures here.
Clifford Thies’s Mises.org article on the penny – which John Fund and other ne’er-do-wells would like to abolish — isn’t quite the defense that I’d like to see, but it’s a start. Then penny is indeed nearly worthless and actually costs more to mint than it’s worth. But tax money wasted on ineffecient minting is [...]
After reading this New York Times story about a Lebanese family shattered by Israeli’s bombardment of civilian areas, I wondered what the militarist blogosphere might be saying about it. Do the people who affect to be so outraged by Hezbollah’s bombing of Israeli civilians get equally upset about Israel doing the same thing on a [...]
Republicans despairing of Rick Santorum’s re-election prospects — he’s still trailing Bob Casey Jr. by double-digits — have been looking hopefully toward gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann. But George Will has his doubts.
The Washington Post’s Jim VandeHei, meanwhile, takes a look at Republicans’ odds in the Northeast generally.
I’ve just arrived in Auburn, Alabama (home of the Ludwig von Mises Institute), where I’ll be attending the “Commerce and Culture” seminar with Paul Cantor this week. At spare moments in the evenings, I’ll post some thoughts on the lectures.
I didn’t have the chance to get through everything on the recommended reading list, but the [...]