Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A review of “Early Austrian Economics” (audiobook)

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So I recently finished an audiobook about “Early Austrian Economics,” about the famous Austrian School in the  late-nineteenth  and  early-...
Monday, February 8, 2021

Actually, the Confederacy had no intention of ever abolishing slavery

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Warning: For obvious reasons, this post does not censor the offensive language out of the historical sources that it quotes from. To do so w...

A review of “Joseph Schumpeter and Dynamic Economic Change” (audiobook)

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I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Austrian economist  Joseph Schumpeter , who lived from 1883 to 1950. He eventually e...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Funny communism jokes

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Note: Some photos in this particular blog post may be anachronistic. They are intended only to enhance the humor, and are not intended to re...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

A review of “Socrates” (audiobook)

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“That’s the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly analogous to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they w...
Monday, January 4, 2021

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Congress” (PBS)

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“One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.” – John Adams It’s hard to do justice to the history of Cong...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

In defense of the documentary as an art form

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When I was in high school, I got into a documentary for the first time in my life. The first documentary that I got into was  Ken Burns’ “...