Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an economist at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and a brilliant libertarian
polemicist in German and English, whose last book,
Democracy: The God that Failed, has created excitement
here and in Europe, Hoppe’s work defends
immigration restriction and free trade, among other things. Last year, Hoppe offended the Thought Police on his campus by
noting that homosexuals (like other groups, such as the very young and very old) plan less for the future than heterosexuals. This fleeting observation in a
75-minute lecture led
gay activists to demand the university authorities punish Hoppe for violating protected group rights. Now the university is proposing to reprimand him and withhold his next pay increase. The ACLU (!) has ridden to his defense, on the grounds that whatever gay might claim for themselves, their
"protection" does not take precedence over freedom of speech, and the
Las Vegas Review-Journal has
described him as
“a world-renowned economist, author and speaker.” Stay tuned.