Here's an excellent post from Jim Fedako on the Census's programming for schools. Here's Daniel Klein on The People's Romance.

Speaking of which, some surprising responses to my recent Mises.org article on tire tariffs have gotten me interested in the narrative of "national greatness" in the last few weeks. Some of the comments on the Mises Blog and some of the emails people have sent suggest that somehow our "national greatness" is diminished by free trade. I must confess that I'm at a loss for how overpaying for tires is an exercise in historically meaningful national virtue.

So what's to be done about it? Here's Robert Frank on economics education.