Hmm. Turns out Karl Marx was just as smelly and personally useless as his modern-day acolytes!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 09:00 AM  | 

Hey, you want a good laugh? Figure out when I started to chortle… at the New York Times. The Karl Marx depicted in Jonathan Sperber’s absorbing, meticulously researched biography will be unnervingly familiar to anyone who has had even the most fleeting acquaintance with radical politics. Here is a man never more passionate than when attacking his own side, saddled with perennial money problems and | Read More »

Let Dead, Defunct Economists Stay Dead

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 14th at 09:28 PM  | 

I gave a talk at the Heritage Foundation and the subject of economics and policy came up. I’ve been dwelling on this 2009 article in the New Zealand Centre for Political Research Weekly and I think it is relevant today too. I stumbled onto it a couple of weeks ago and think it makes a worthwhile point — we keep digging up these dead and | Read More »