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July 2017

July 28, 2017

How Government Intervention Benefits Big Business and Ten Things You Should Know About Socialism – Mises U 2017

This is the last day for my notes on Mises University 2017. I wanted to...

July 27, 2017

Economics vs. Conventional Wisdom, Plus Some Philosophy – Mises U 2017

I got a late start today, but I was able to squeeze in a couple...

July 26, 2017

Business Cycles, the Environment, Drugs, Fake News, Hayek and Keynes, and the Minimum Wage – Mises U 2017

Lecture 1 - The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle by Roger Garrison Lecture 2...

July 25, 2017

Socialism, Inequality, War, Monopoly Power, and Market Failure – All in a Day’s Work – Mises U 2017

Today is the beginning of concurrent lectures so I had some options but these are...

July 24, 2017

What You Need to Know About the Austrian School – Mises U 2017

This is the first full day of Mises U 2017 and it's reserved for these 7...

July 24, 2017

What I Learned from Murray Rothbard – Mises U 2017

Thanks for joining me for this series of posts on Mises University 2017. If you...

July 20, 2017

Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is Under Bombardment

Nancy MacLean's new book on James Buchanan, public choice economics, and the "radical right" isn't...

July 08, 2017

Mises University 2017

When I was an undergrad at Huntington University, the highlight of my summers was the week-long...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

Put up your tree and look to the future

I rolled out of bed this morning (but not before checking Facebook on my phone...

November 07, 2016

Anabaptist Politics in 21st Century USA – Sermon from 11/6/2016

I am grateful to Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship in Berne, IN for asking me to...

October 2016

October 10, 2016

The Prison Sentence of the American Student

I think, when students complain of having to be in school, as if it's a prison...

October 07, 2016

Tom Bombadil in the Science Classroom

I am a substitute teacher. It's not what I envisioned as my teaching career when...

October 02, 2016

Some Thoughts on Trump vs. Clinton from an Anabaptist-Mennonite Perspective

Last night I went to a talk by Dr. Mads Gilbert, an anesthesiologist who did...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

A Culture in the Dark: MacIntyre and Hayek’s Brave New World

Last week my pastor Anita asked me to write a sermon about bridging the gap between...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Donald Trump and the mysticism of money

One of the Republican nominee's more recent affronts to conventional politics was his statement in an...

July 04, 2016

Preaching to the choir?

If my last post betrayed a certain frustration with this year's experience at Acton U,...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Acton 2016: continuing my economic education

One of the reasons I attend Acton U is to improve my highly sketchy understanding...

June 20, 2016

Maritain vs. MacIntyre

On Wednesday morning, my first session was a lecture on two important Catholic philosophers: Jacques...

June 17, 2016

Acton part 2: A Sufi entrepreneur on how to end poverty in Africa

The first plenary speaker at Acton University was a Senegalese entrepreneur named Magatte Wade, a...

June 14, 2016

Edwin Tait at Acton University: Introduction

This is my first post on Pickled Pencil. My name is Edwin Woodruff Tait, and...

June 14, 2016

Review of The Soulmaking Room, by Dee Dee Risher – Part 2 – Snappy Quotes!

When I was a senior at Huntington University, I took a class on the life and...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Review of The Soulmaking Room, by Dee Dee Risher – Part 1

It's been a difficult spring for me. By "difficult," I don't mean fresh and exciting challenges that...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

“Before they can rest assured their lives are justified”

I'm sitting down by the highway Down by that highway side Everybody's going somewhere Riding...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Praying in Solidarity and Confronting Vulnerability

Today is Easter (at the time of writing). There is a soft breeze rustling the ivy...

March 21, 2016

How Economies Grow (and How They Crash), as Told by Roger Garrison

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a pleasant Palm Sunday. When I was a...

March 16, 2016

J. R. R. Tolkien on the Atomic Bombings and the “Lunatic Physicists” (Plus, Some Thoughts on Violence)

Posts about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki normally make their rounds in early August,...

March 14, 2016

Jesus, the State, and Socialism: A Response to David Schell

In this post, I respond to David Schell's post "Is Socialism Unbiblical?" which is itself a...

March 12, 2016

Is Socialism Biblical? A Guest Post by David Schell

Our first guest post! David Schell, a friend and fellow Huntington University alum, has granted me permission...

March 10, 2016

I, Pickled Pencil: The First Post! (Plus, Some Thoughts on Connectedness and Economics)

Ah, the first post of a fresh new blog! Welcome to The Pickled Pencil! I'd...