My GMU and Mercatus Center colleague Pete Boettke is wonderfully profiled in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.  And here’s Bill Easterley’s note on the WSJ‘s profile of Pete.

Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman is a good egg.  (HT Dan Polsby)

Bob Higgs looks at the yield curve for corporate bonds and finds quite reasonably hypothesizes that, much as in the 1930s, the economy today is sorely afflicted by “regime uncertainty.”

Here’s a new book that I’m especially eager to read: Empire and Liberty, by Richard Immerman.

My favorite television show of all time is Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes Prime Minister.  This 1980s comedy, produced by the BBC, offers on-going and deep lessons in public choice.  Here’s one of my favorite scenes; this scene features the P.M.’s chief permanent secretary (Sir Humphrey) seeking advice, over lunch, from his predecessor in that secretarial role, Sir Arnold.

The Rational Optimist author Matt Ridley is the subject of this PBS Newshour segment.  And here’s a longer take.

Writing in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Shikha Dalmia and Anthony Randazzo expose some Keynesian bubblicious foolishness – in China.

Competing visions of America.  (HT Walter Williams)

Calgary lawyer Bruce Korol, in this op-ed, argues sensibly for a free-market in body organs.

The Federal Register just hit 50,000 pages.  Here’s Ryan Young’s take.

George Leef properly describes Pres. Obama’s college agenda as “absurd.”

In these two videos, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s R.J. Smith discusses, first, the history of environmentalism, and, second, the tragedy of the commons.  Great viewing!

Also from CEI, Marlo Lewis blogs on Indur Goklany’s research into the happy trend of weather-related human deaths.  Here’s Marlo’s opening:

Writing at Foxnews.com, my former GMU student Alex Nowrasteh defends birthright citizenship.

In this video, the great Tom Palmer debates free trade with the duplicitous multiplicitous Lou Dobbs – Judge Napolitano moderates.  (HT Andy Roth)

Amity Shlaes explains that “lousy lawmakers, not low taxes, created fiscal woes.” (HT James McClure)

Boston Globe conservative-libertarian columnist Jeff Jacoby supports birthright citizenship in America.  Here’s his ringing conclusion:

Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Thomas Sowell on FreedomWatch.

Speaking of Sowell, Carpe Diem’s Mark Perry quotes him.

A fascinating graph from Bill Easterly over at Aid Watch.