On February 15th, my friend James Padilioni, Jr. and I gave a talk about art and liberty to the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference. Wacky poltergeist-like technical problems prevented…
These should be of interest to our readers: Gregory Clark (UC-Davis Econ) in the NY Times about long term social mobility. One quote: “The fortunes of high-status families inexorably fall,…
The Institute for Humane Studies asked me to give a short talk to a group of undergrads at ISFLC who expressed an interest in grad school. Here, roughly, is the…
With apologies to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. “The first person who, having donned a crown of gold, took it into his head to say ‘I am king’ and found people simple enough to…
Here’s a particularly bad argument against immigration: “Liberal immigration laws are unfair to legal immigrants who have played by the rules and waited patiently to get into this country in…
I’m in the process of writing Against Politics. Among other things, the book argues that Mill was wrong and Schumpeter was right about how political engagement affects us. Political engagement doesn’t…