August 10, 2012
McCloskey Destroys Sandel
Dierdre McCloskey refutes Michael Sandel’s last book here. Worth reading the entire thing.
Author: Jason Brennan
August 09, 2012
The Nagasaki Bombing
On this day in 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, murdering tens of thousands of innocent people. Just three days earlier, it had dropped an atomic bomb…
August 08, 2012
You Didn’t Build that Pencil
A few more thoughts on You-Didn’t-Build-That-Gate. (See my earlier posts here and here.) Leonard Read explained that literally no one on earth can make a pencil from scratch. This guy…
August 02, 2012
Some Thought Experiments Involving Assassination
1. Suppose an evil demon appears before you and says, “I plan to kill hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians and destroy their country’s architecture unless you kill this one…
July 26, 2012
Caplan v. Gowder on Blaming the Poor
Poor people frequently make what appear to be stupid, self-destructive choices. For instance, there’s a distant cousin, Aaron, on my wife’s side. Aaron lacks a high school diploma and is always…
July 20, 2012
On Quoting Out of Context and the Right-Wing Smear Machine
Suppose I wrote the following in an article: The most charitable reconstruction of Adolf Hitler’s argument for killing Jews goes, more or less, like this. Jews are equivalent to infected…