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My Fourth of July with Per Bylund

July 6, 2023

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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‘Bread and Gold over Mice and Fleas’: Augustine and Aquinas as Proto-Austrians

March 1, 2023

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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Fastballs and Fastbulbs

August 19, 2021
  • 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

Notice That Your Boss Is More of An Asshole Than Ever? Here’s Why

June 14, 2021

Part of the genius behind NBC’s famous and now classic sitcom The Office was the character development that moved the audience to engage in an identity investigation of actor Steve Carell’s Michael Scott. As the head of Dunder Mifflin Scranton, Scott’s decisions in his love life, intra-office relations and even just plain business were often…
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