Hey guys, just got back from a lecture by Judge Napolitano who was this years mystery speaker at Mises U. I will link the video/audio of the lecture when it comes up. It got me all jacked up.
You’ve officially met more famous people than I have. 
For some reason, I thought all the lecturers would be taller. No joke.
Andrew/Laughing Man, did you see North’s lecture on Murray Rothbard as Academic Role Model? I thought that was great. I did one of my college application essays on Rothbard.
Woods’ Mises Circle lecture on Nullification was hilarious. I listened to it last night on iTunes.
Yea I was there. As I was telling Jeremiah who is also here, the beginning of that lecture was so depressing. He was like…‘Some people aren’t bound for greatness. Don’t try to be a Rothbard, be happy with a Higgs.’ Screw that! I want to be a Rothbard. What excels a movement is not contentness with middle of the road greatness. I mean Rothbard wasn’t saying to himself ‘Man I can never be a Mises, maybe I should just be happy with being a Hazlitt.’ You need to reach and then exceed the top thinkers of a movement in order for it to continue. You need to build your foundation on top of theirs. Otherwise we will just turn into the GOP saying…‘Man Reagan was great…too bad we can’t bring back Reagan..’
By the way, anyone who doesn’t know this yet, David Gordon is a brilliant man. I finally got my hands on his Resurrecting Marx book and read it and it will knock your socks off. He just methodologically breaks down analytical Marxists bit by bit. It’s really true what Gary North said about him. He just takes a scalpel to these guys and slices his way to a total demolition.
They’re all shorter than me too; Tom Woods, Walter Block, Bob Murphy, David Gordon. I didn’t know Gary North that short. What about Andrew Napolitano?
About the size I was expecting.
this thread seems to have a rather ‘American/Ancient Greek’ cultural association with greatness thing going on, such that expectations are that the brightest minds be in the more magnificent bodies.
I have a rather more ‘Jewish’ cultural bias whereby I tend to expect that people that can think a damn won’t be favourites for any olympic medals
Gosh Nir! Stereotype much!?
its good wholesome fun for all the family
Well reading does lead to a sedentary lifestyle. I was sitting in the library today finishing up Gordon’s book on Marx and my god their leather seats are so comfortable. I was doing that thing where you catch yourself falling asleep. I mean how can you maintain a trim physique with chairs like that?
I guess one could try listening to Man,Economy and State as an AudioBook whilst running track and lifting weights but,… do I have to>?
My height excludes me from greatness.
Gordon has always sort of reminded me of Woody Allen. Unfortunately I can’t stand listening to audio lectures of him.
I’ll have to pick that book up sometime.
So embarrassing! About 21 mins in to the Judge’s lecture he puts a mic in front of me and asks why we should be allowed the right to think? Totally caught off guard I speak some babble about natural rights by the fact we our human (which I’m still debating if I even subscribe to), than he asks my why does it apply to humans? I freeze…mind goes blank and the guy beside me is yelling “say the creator”, it turn to him and say “no” on the mic and then the judge takes over…
Public speaking is not for me I guess
Well you totally got it wrong. You didn’t start with a text!
lmao.
Ah that’s a shame. On the right track though. For refusing to say the creator.
“They’re all shorter than me too; Tom Woods, Walter Block, Bob Murphy, David Gordon. I didn’t know Gary North that short.”
And on the flip side, the tallest economist of all time was…John Kenneth Galbraith!
I was was watching live on Ustream and I knew that had to be THE Jeremiah when the Judge called you out. It was very strange watching it online. First of all the people in the chat were predominantly minarchist, which I found odd. I know that there are minarchist Austrians but to me it seemed like the ratio was heavily in favor of anarchy. Then the judge was asked a question about anarchy and he went on for 20 minutes about something else. I am not really sure what the point of his talk was. I don’t think many Austrians really give a shit about the Constitution. Even minarchist ones probably have lots of problems with it.
I think what he could have had the most to say would be about how to get into the mainstream and spread the message to more and more people. How and when did the judge become famous anyway? I’m not really sure.
You don’t have to care about the Constitution to see that it’s been mangled and bludgeoned repeatedly. Ron Paul has said his goal is a voluntarist society, but even pointing out the hypocrisy of most of those who claim to love the Constitution is a great first step towards opening people’s minds.