August 12, 2014
The Unicorn Test
It is striking how often my friends on the left have in mind the practical equivalent of a unicorn when they make policy pronouncements. So I wrote about this, for…
Author: Mike Munger
August 06, 2014
Collision With Error
For “Friedman Legacy Day” I gave a talk over in Wilmington, NC. My thesis was that higher education has a problem with intellectual diversity, and that the real drawback with…
July 23, 2014
BHL Goes to Brasil?
A story (in Portuguese, but you can easily translate it) from Brasil about U.S. libertarianism. And, quite rightly, BHL-ists figure prominently in the discussion. Excerpt (of a bad translation): According…
July 05, 2014
Pro-Government Libertarian?
This is an odd, but in some ways interesting, post. The oddities include: He thinks that Nazism was “caused” by “severe deflation,” and that was the fault of markets. Um…that…
June 11, 2014
Autonomy, Property, and Manners: Sitting in Darwin’s Waiting Room
Some facts, which may or may not be actual “facts,” but it’s a story. (I saw it here, btw). The set-up: My friend was at a house with three other…
May 20, 2014
Thinking Outside the Parking Spot
With thanks to readers and commenters. Some issues regarding the Keene parking post yesterday…. 1. I don’t think that there is any serious question about the existence, persistence, and aggressiveness…