The Wisdom of Outstanding Men

Sandeep
I firmly believe we are a more prosperous, dynamic society when normal people are exposed to economic insights. We are perpetually bombarded with sophistries, nonsense, teleological hocus-pocus, self-important rationalism, and trumpeted statistics–in addition to coping with the disorienting position of living in many orders at once.

Economics provides powerful insights about human action that, when popularly understood, will fortify the foundations of an enduring free society. I assert that this popular understanding also assists our happiness. Some people (B.A.’s in English Lit., welfare-apologists, socialists of all parties) fume and snarl and generally become angry over what at its root is ‘class struggle’. Such anger leads to despondency, so it’s important to show people why it’s all so unnecessary (Be Easy!!).

I find that it’s good to direct people’s attention towards successful Outstanding Men.

Outstanding Man: Robert Higgs

On 17 July Randy Barnett published an article in The Wall Street Journal suggesting that nowhere in the fundamental ideas of classical liberalism is a restriction to one particular stance on the War Between the Rivers (“Libertarians and the War: Ron Paul doesn’t speak for all of us”) On 30 July, WSJ published a rebuttal from Robert Higgs, the full letter appearing below the fold….