Yesterday (October 3, 2025), Heidi and I visited the Hoover–Minthorn House in Newberg, Oregon. The house, built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards, the Quaker founder of Newberg, stands behind a white picket fence, its clapboard walls repainted in pale yellow. Murray Rothbard had already set my prejudice against Hoover, so the visit was a sardonicContinue reading “Herbert Hoover and Moral Engineering”
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MORIHEI UESHIBA – 1935 DEMO
In 1935, a Japanese newsreel crew from Asahi Shinbun captured the earliest surviving footage of Morihei Ueshiba demonstrating his art. This black-and-white film—along with his Budo, published in 1938, and his earlier private training documents such as Budo Renshu (1933), compiled with student Kenji Tomiki—comprise the few unambiguous records of what Aikido looked like beforeContinue reading “MORIHEI UESHIBA – 1935 DEMO”
Murray Rothbard
Liberty In Our Time – YouTube channel on libertarian authors A History of Money and Banking in The United States The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire (1870 to WW2), lectures delivered by Murray Rothbard
Protective Arts 