October 08, 2012
Happy !@#$ing Columbus Day
Take the most cartoonish, uncharitable form of libertarianism you can think of. And then compare it to this piece, which has been making the rounds on Facebook today. I used…
Month: October 2012
October 08, 2012
Human Capitalism
Thanks to the folks at Bleeding Heart Libertarians for inviting me to blog here about my new e-book Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter – and More…
October 07, 2012
Brink Lindsey Guest-Blogging on Human Capitalism
I’m happy to say that on Monday and Tuesday of this week, we’re going to be joined by Brink Lindsey who will be blogging about his new (cheap!) book, Human Capitalism,…
October 05, 2012
The One-Boxer Argument for Voting
Jason Brennan’s excellent The Ethics of Voting dispatches a number of familiar arguments for a duty to vote and provides grounds for a duty to vote well or not vote…
October 04, 2012
On the Probability of Being Decisive
This post is in response to Andrew Gelman’s post here. Gelman is a very good political scientist and statistician, but I’ve notice over and over that’s he’s rather overconfident when…
October 04, 2012
Anarchist Calisthenics
James C. Scott, author of the excellent Seeing Like a State, and The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, has a new book just out: Two…