On Monday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Hans Hermann-Hoppe, whom they introduce as “the world’s leading living libertarian philosopher.”  Listen here!

Former
Speaker of the House of Representatives and current Republican
presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich infamously managed to deflect
questions about his alleged request that his second wife agree to
an “open marriage” so that he could continue …

The people who settle the Red Planet may not look like us.

To understand why genetic engineering is the only
way humanity can conquer Mars and the rest of the solar system,
consider what the current version of Homo sapiens will
have to endure on a trip to the Red Planet. Any crew dispatched on
the 18-to-…

That’s the message in a Wall Street
Journal op/ed today signed by sixteen prominent scientists.
The scientists note that warming has been less than predicted by
climate models:

Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming
f…

Counting savings from projected war spending is Washington’s
favorite budget gimmick, and both
Republicans and Democrats have used the ploy to beef up
the official deficit reduction tallies on various budget plans. The
trick is simple enough: …

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On Wednesday, Jan. 25, I appeared on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s
great Freedom Watch program to talk about the
even-more-interesting-than-you-initially-thought case of Sen. Rand
Paul (R-Kentucky) getting detained by airport security:

If Washington is going to dictate the terms, why should the states foot the bill?

If you’re married to a gambling addict, you don’t
do him any favors by lending him money or telling the bank you were
the one who blew the mortgage at the track. Likewise, writes A.
Barton Hinkle, Virginia should not enable Washington’s addiction …

A dramatic suicide bombing at a funeral in Baghdad took the lion’s share of casualties today. However, across the country, gunmen were able to kill several security personnel. At least 40 Iraqis were killed and 67 more were wounded overall.

Former Reason scribe, now with Slate, Dave Weigel caught up with the head
of the NAACP, Ben Jealous, and asked him a question about Rep. Ron
Paul (R-Texas).

Slate: Ron Paul answered a question about
his old newsletters by saying he was the mos…

Yesterday, I went on the Mike McConnell show on Chicago’s WGN
Radio to talk about my
patched-together State of the Union address from the last
half-century. You can listen to the interview
here.

|Peter Boettke| Dalibor Rohac has a great profile on Deirdre McCloskey in the WSJ. I invoked McCloskey on a similar point yesterday in a post at Bleeding Heart Libertarians, where I will be guest blogging throughout the spring term. One…