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I’ll have our web guy look into this. I’m not sure it’s happening universally, so I have no idea what the problem is.

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By the way, in case you missed this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQMmpLqIWiE

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In identifying a natural elite I don’t think we are restricted just to people who are super-wealthy. We are looking for people of excellence and virtue, and these qualities can be recognized even in someone whose material possessions are modest.

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I think one can be an atheist and a Burkean. Hayek was an agnostic and there is at least some Burkean influence in his Law, Legislation, and Liberty trilogy. Kirk is probably more explicit that some vague acknowledgment of the divine is necessary to conservatism.

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His suspension of antitrust meant that when the federal government actively promoted the creation of cartels, it didn’t need to fear legal challenge.

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I will have to make my way through this material at some point. Right now it seems like mastering the literature on the Kennedy assassination.

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Right, that’s it exactly. The inflation of the money supply pushes prices up, and the increased abundance pushes them down. Hence it’s a wash, roughly.

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Also, Harry Veryser, author of It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary — And How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle, is from Detroit. Or, as he put it at this year’s Austrian Economics Research Conference: “I’m from Detroit, or where Detroit used to be.”

Harry teaches at the University of Detroit, Mercy.

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It’s a good idea. Right now I don’t have the spare time to do it, but at some point we should revisit this.

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What is the objection to the idea of self-ownership? I imagine a religious response might be: God owns me. But by the same token, then, God would also own your house and your car, and yet you do not say: “I cannot believe in my ownership of my house or my ownership of my car.”

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For the life of me I could not remember them! Then I did just the right Google search. You can find the titles here: http://www.fallacydetective.com/

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My apologies for the late reply. Ralph Raico’s essay raises key points: http://www.lewrockwell.com/raico/raico22.html

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I can’t figure out what he’s thinking. This article by Peter Wallison seems to sum it up. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507803

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This book has some important material in it: http://www.amazon.com/American-Republic-Bruce-Frohnen/dp/0865973334

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Kevin, the book is definitely not outdated in a fundamental sense: its arguments are all sound, its logic is airtight, its grasp of history beyond reproach. But the stats go only up through the mid-1980s. Would be nice to see if Sowell’s claims hold up today. Do West Indian immigrants still earn much more than native-born blacks, for example?

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