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16 September 1810: Mexican Independence Day (see also here). 17 September 1787: Constitution Day (USA). 18-20 September 1863: The Battle of Chickamauga between Confederate and Union forces. (Among other things, this battle produces the second-highest amount of civil war casualties … Continue reading →

That is the subject of the podcast episode below. (For my part, it sure looks that way to me!) File under: “Bayesian updating” (look it up!).

Wow! This 45-minute music-mix magically popped up into my YouTube homepage (thank you evil Google algorithms), and I loved every second of it!

That is the title of this suspenseful short story by my fellow writer and friend Luanne Castle. Her one-paragraph story, which was published in the Bright Flash Literary Review, belongs to a new literary genre known as “micro-fiction” or “flash … Continue reading →

That is the title of this report by Stephanie Pappas for Scientific American. (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.) In brief, the word “unless” in Netwon’s First Law (see, for example, the infographic below) should really read “except insofar”; otherwise, the first … Continue reading →

My colleague and friend Peter J. Boettke explores this question in his survey essay for The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2022), pp. 267-275, which is available here (for free!) via SSRN. Among other things, Professor Boettke explains … Continue reading →

For my part, I have been conducting some new research on two aspects of Adam Smith’s biography (his decision to abandon his studies at Balliol College in the summer of 1746 and his final departure from Paris in the fall … Continue reading →

Who shot JFK? For my part, I have never believed the far-fetched single-bullet theory proposed by the Warren Commission, so a spate of stories published during the past few days and calling into question the government’s version of the assassination … Continue reading →