Had Other Writers Written the Libertarian Classics…
Bill James, The Man vs. the Stats J.R.R. Tolkien, The Virtue of Elfishness Thor Heyerdahl, Rowed to Serfdom J.G. Frazer, The Rites of Man Richard Stallman, For a Gnu Liberty John Ruskin, The Gaud of...
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The Whelps of Tiger Moms and Irish Setter Dads
Amy Chua, the Tiger Mom phenom, has finally received an apt check and mate from P.J. O’Rourke, in The Weekly Standard. Proclaiming himself an “Irish Setter Dad,” he finds the perfect use for the new...
View ArticleDeath Comes for the Philosopher
Though John Hospers was never my hero, he came close. Now he’s dead, like most of the other philosophical writers I admire. He died yesterday, a few days into his 94th year. Since I grew up in one of...
View ArticleMises on the Beach
When Michelle Bachmann confessed to taking the writings of Ludwig von Mises with her on vacation, I assumed she used the august Austrian economist as a soporific — not because Mises isn’t worth...
View ArticleForecasts vs. Policies
Arnold Kling, at EconLog, relates Scott Sumner’s simple query as to why the 2008 financial crisis has caused such low or negative growth down even unto the present day, and offers four possible...
View ArticleNew Libertarian Website Launched
Cato Institute has launched a new website: libertarianism.org. In a previous incarnation, the domain served as a promotion page for David Boaz’s Libertarianism: A Primer. Designed to be an introductory...
View ArticleProtesting Narrow Economics
I am pretty sure that, had I taken economics in school, I would never have developed an interest in it. One of my hobbies is collecting economics textbooks. They are not uniformly bad — I have gained...
View ArticleGive or Take
“All gave some, some gave all” — just another statist piety. Most lives in war are taken. Conscripts, especially, do not “give their lives for their country.” The state takes those lives. The day after...
View ArticleAnother DeLong Cheap Shot
Economist Brad DeLong has come out swinging against Austrian economics again, and once again he’s punched himself in the face. But he’s too numb to realize it. There’s a great response on the Mises...
View ArticleHad Other Writers Written the Libertarian Classics…
Bill James, The Man vs. the Stats J.R.R. Tolkien, The Virtue of Elfishness Thor Heyerdahl, Rowed to Serfdom J.G. Frazer, The Rites of Man Richard Stallman, For a Gnu Liberty John Ruskin, The Gaud of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Whelps of Tiger Moms and Irish Setter Dads
Amy Chua, the Tiger Mom phenom, has finally received an apt check and mate from P.J. O’Rourke, in The Weekly Standard. Proclaiming himself an “Irish Setter Dad,” he finds the perfect use for the new...
View ArticleDeath Comes for the Philosopher
Though John Hospers was never my hero, he came close. Now he’s dead, like most of the other philosophical writers I admire. He died yesterday, a few days into his 94th year. Since I grew up in one of...
View ArticleMises on the Beach
When Michelle Bachmann confessed to taking the writings of Ludwig von Mises with her on vacation, I assumed she used the august Austrian economist as a soporific — not because Mises isn’t worth...
View ArticleForecasts vs. Policies
Arnold Kling, at EconLog, relates Scott Sumner’s simple query as to why the 2008 financial crisis has caused such low or negative growth down even unto the present day, and offers four possible...
View ArticleNew Libertarian Website Launched
Cato Institute has launched a new website: libertarianism.org. In a previous incarnation, the domain served as a promotion page for David Boaz’s Libertarianism: A Primer. Designed to be an introductory...
View ArticleProtesting Narrow Economics
I am pretty sure that, had I taken economics in school, I would never have developed an interest in it. One of my hobbies is collecting economics textbooks. They are not uniformly bad — I have gained...
View ArticleGive or Take
“All gave some, some gave all” — just another statist piety. Most lives in war are taken. Conscripts, especially, do not “give their lives for their country.” The state takes those lives. The day after...
View ArticleAnother DeLong Cheap Shot
Economist Brad DeLong has come out swinging against Austrian economics again, and once again he’s punched himself in the face. But he’s too numb to realize it. There’s a great response on the Mises...
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