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Audio Class: Woodrow Wilson and the ‘Triple Wall of Privilege’

May 11, 2021

  Damn straight. Listen below:

The “I-Word”

February 26, 2021

During Lent, we Catholics are instructed not to say the “A-word”, i.e. “alleluia”. It’s use is suspended until Easter. In the worlds of politics, economics, and finance, agents this season are leery of using the “I-word” namely “inflation” unless it is a referent to a phenomenon immediately dismissed as unworthy of concern. After all, the…
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The Good Sons Versus GameStop

January 30, 2021

It has been a while since I saw the movie The Good Son (1993) so please do pardon my fuzzy yet necessary and ultimately beneficial recollection of the plot. Essentially, a boy played by Macaulay Culkin has everyone tricked into believing him to be a good boy. He has all the airs of a good…
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Tech Companies and Deregulation

November 20, 2020

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has identified a problem but not the true culprit. Two days ago, acting more investigative journalist than legislator (and in Hawley’s defense, someone has to do it), Hawley harangued Zuckerberg and Dorsey about the coordinated censorship that Facebook, Twitter, and Google obviously engage in regularly. He wants regulation. Stalinist/Nazi Senator…
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Still President

November 10, 2020

Is there anything more galling than the media establishment insisting that there are no credible instances of fraud in the election just as the accounts of outright criminality mount to the point of being innumerable? Perhaps Joe Robinette Biden and his sidekick who he advocated should not get bused to a white school, appearing and…
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Election and Secession

October 17, 2020

We sort of deserve this, do we not? A tie. Before you Democrats out there get all a tither because you heard on CNN that a tie means this election gets tossed to the House of Representatives, read your Constitution again. In such a scenario, each STATE’s representation in the House gets one vote. And…
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Not So Funny Business: Is Seinfeld’s New York (Or Chicago) Dead?

September 28, 2020

All due deference to the man who is the namesake of and one of the geniuses behind the greatest American sit-com about nothing, but in the recent war/argument/discussion/exchange/girly-slapfest over the status and future of New York City, it is hard to award dear Jerry with a win. It was indeed Seinfeld who played a novel,…
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The Roaring ’20s

August 31, 2020

In two parts, audio recordings/lectures on the fascinating 1920s: Part I: Part II: mentioned and suggested readings and materials: ABC News, The Century Series: America’s Time, “Boom to Bust, 1920-1929“ David Kennedy et al., The American Pageant. Ludwig von Mises, Human Action. Murray Rothbard, The Progressive Era. Eric Sass, et al., The Mental Floss History…
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On the Gilded Age Robber Barons…And the Debate I LOST!

August 5, 2020

I heroically took the PRO side in a debate against my brilliant students on the resolution: The so-called “Robber Barons” were malevolent crooks who bilked the American public to get rich. Well, that did not go well–and I lost! Hear it all here.      

10-In-10 Decades Podcasts

August 1, 2020

Prompt   The 1970s   The 1980s   The 1990s   The 2000s   The 2010s

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