Trump should have been satisfied with demolishing 10 or 20 Iranian bridges a day, day after day, rather than all of them in a sigle day. That would have been a plan he could actually have executed and would at some point have forced the Iranians to do whatever we wanted them to do. Destroying all the bridges in a single day was too severe a penalty for Trump, or any other normal human being, actually to carry it out. So, unless our course is changd, the Iranians will likely avoid any serious punishment.

In the last few months, I've twice had the experience of being unable to post on X because too much time had supposedly gone by since my precious post. Does anyone know anything about this phenomenon? How often must one post to avoid it?

If you really want to learn from my lectures, you need to read my book Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. It's available. without charge, in a hyperlinked pdf version, which makes it possible for you to select and print out small sections, so you do not ever have to carry around and read from a six pound book. Here;s a link to it: drive.google.com/open?id=1hU…

Here's the link to my Pepperdine University "Macro" classes. There are two recordings per class meeting in order to be able to comply with classes of four academic hours. The first part of the class would go for two full hours, followed by a 25-miniute break, which in turn was followed by an additional 80 minutes of class time. Click below to bring up the list of lectures: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

Pepperdine Lectures: “Macro” Here is the link to the syllabus and syllabus supplements for my "Second Course," which, for want of a better single word description, I've labeled "Macro." The title of each lecture will indicate, by means of its inclusion of a single digit number labeled as "supplement" or "supp," which syllabus supplement accompanies it. Please download this material and have it available when you listen to any of my lectures in the "Second” Course.” acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…

Here's the link to my Pepperdine University "Micro" classes. There are two recordings per class meeting in order to be able to comply with classes of four academic hours. The first part of the class would go for two full hours, followed by a 25-miniute break, which in turn was followed by an additional 80 minutes of class time. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

Here is the link to the syllabus and syllabus supplements for my "First Course,"which, for want of a better single wprd descrription, I've labelled "Micro." The title of each lecture will indicate, by means of uts inclusion of a single digit number labelled as "supplement" or "supp," which syllabus supplement accompanies it. Please download this material and have it available when you listen to any of my lectrues in the "First Course." acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…

I hope to soon make available to the general public recordings of my lectures in my final year of teaching at Pepperdine University. They will be offered wi thout charge and in the hope that whoever downloads them will make them available, also without charge, to as many people as possible; for example, by posting them on his website if he has one. The lectures will be accompanied by the pdf version of my main written work, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. Here's the link to it: drive.google.com/open?id=1hU…

Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged and the founder of the philosophy of Objectivism died forty-four years ago on this day.