Congratulations, Walter Block

While the cover of his infamous 1976 book was enough to convince me that Professor Walter Block has tried to defend the undefendable...Check it out: Amazon's actually refusing to show the original cover, with the subtitle, which contained a four-letter word for a very disgusting category of humans.

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...Nevertheless, his successful career proves that letting people hate you is not necessarily a bad thing for a writer. Thanks to Tom Woods for sharing this update.

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Walter Block, the prolific libertarian theorist, Austrian economist, and professor at Loyola University New Orleans, reached an unbelievable milestone the other day: 100 peer-reviewed articles published that he co-authored with his undergraduate students.

Now 100 peer-reviewed articles is four times as many as most Loyola professors can boast in their entire careers, much less just with students.

No other professor has come close to matching this feat. I don't think any other professor has even tried.

This is amazing, right? The university must be so proud! Where else can parents find a professor so committed to his students' long-term success?

Nope.

So far, not a peep from Loyola University.

This, no doubt, is because Walter is a "sexist" for not believing in the gender wage gap, and because he "supports slavery" (yes, people really are this dumb) because the New York Times took him out of context.

Can you imagine Walter, who actually favors reparations for slavery, "supporting slavery"? His point was that the objectionable part about slavery was the coercive aspect, and that everything else was incidental. The Times, which wanted to make Rand Paul (whose family has long known Walter) look bad, twisted this to make it sound as if Walter was saying that some aspects of slavery might be nice.

A decent human being running Loyola University would have admonished the Times for its libelous reporting and defended his extremely accomplished and widely published professor. But that's only for leftists. Anyone who isn't p.c. will be abandoned at the first opportunity, and sternly lectured for views everyone on Earth knows he doesn't hold and would never hold.

Meanwhile, lots of Loyola students refuse to take Walter's classes because of the buzzwords: why, we've heard he's a "racist" and a "sexist"!

Here's a guy who gets articles published for them in academic journals, who cares more about them than any professor they'll ever meet, and who even got some articles published that he disagreed with!

He is, in short, the model professor.

It is shameful how he has been treated.

Now Walter doesn't have his own podcast, but he does have friends -- lots of them. And some of those friends, like me, have podcasts. And you'd better believe I used my podcast to get the word out about Walter's amazing milestone. Libertarian blogs all over the place are doing likewise.

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I don't do this often but, having ganked his fun facts, I'll share TW's business link:

http://www.happyearner.com/ijustdiditforyou