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What HUMAN ACTION Means To Me

It’s been almost two months since I finished reading Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action cover-to-cover for the first time. I am thankful for the interval between then an now: It has allowed me to further appreciate his genius. It has given me time to appreciate the myriad of ways, consciously and unconsciously, that he has affected…
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Bad German

It just so happens that I have a very Anglicized German surname. As such, both its spelling and its pronunciation, post-alteration, happen to be be all messed up. I spoke of this on the massive hit episode of The Delingpod with the great James Delingpole. Both my heritage and the unfortunate, historical mutilation of my…
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My Fourth of July with Per Bylund

Long gone are the previous American Independence days when I naively participated in all of the practices that bespoke of true American patriotism. Sure, barbeques are still good. Fireworks, ok. Seeing Old Glory everywhere–fine. Parades are still horrible. But, all of the attendant feelings I was supposed to experience and honestly wanted to believe, have…
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Notes and Review of STALIN’S WAR

My notes follow (along with an interview from RUN YOUR MOUTH) from an epic book and epic read–on just how much the history establishment has gotten wrong, or more so, what it has purposefully done to communicate and indoctrinate in the service of modern regimes, a limited at best–apocryphal at worst–understanding of World War II.…
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‘Bread and Gold over Mice and Fleas’: Augustine and Aquinas as Proto-Austrians

One need look no further than the Mises Wire (and Hot H2O History, by proxy) to discover the profound–dare I say providential and as such, inevitable–confluence of the best of Catholic thought and the Austrian school of economics. In dual submissions, Connor Mortell highlights just how much St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas discovered truths…
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Am I a Libertarian?– A Litmus Test

WANT TO RAISE THAT SCORE??? 

Kish Me Once, Kish Me Twice

*As published on the Mises Wire w/Audio Mises Wire. Kish, since you are wondering, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf famed for its tourist and shopping attractions. It is becoming a serious rival to other nearby vacation hubs in Doha and Dubai. Along with pristine beaches and extensive malls, Kish is–or more so…
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I Co-Created a Book with My High School History Teacher

*This article originally appeared on Medium, July 4, 2022   March 2020 It all started in March 2020. Here. On Medium. I began blogging to pass time as I had just been sent home from college for the rest of the semester. There was a virus going around. “18 & Bored” was my Medium bio.…
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The Anti-Human Meeting of the Elites in Glasgow

Leave it to the Great Resetters to hold their meeting to resolve the self-described “climate crisis” in a city whose very existence is owed to the unearthing and continual burning of fossil fuels. What would Glasgow be, after all, without coal and oil and heavy industry and James Watt? I’ll tell you: it would be…
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Fastballs and Fastbulbs

  • One hundred plus years ago, the Black Sox made news, supposedly because out of destitution, they gambled (threw) the World Series in 1919.
  • Almost four hundred years ago, Dutch merchants made huge bets on tulip bulbs.

Sound dissimilar to totally unrelated? NOT SO!

Find out why here.

*Paper defense delivered at the Mises Institute Libertarian Scholars’ Conference, 2019