January 30, 2014
Charity Begins at Home
Bryan Caplan’s latest post at Econlog draws a damning portrait of John, the political activist, who neglects his family to pursue his activism. After a while, though, you start to…
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January 27, 2014
Podcast on the New York Times Piece on Rand Paul
Those of you who follow me on Facebook have seen some of my commentary on yesterday’s New York Times article on Rand Paul that tied libertarianism and Austrian economics to racism,…
January 16, 2014
Thoughts on Liberty’s Poor Thoughts on Snowden
The blog Thoughts on Liberty recently posted a piece arguing that Snowden should face punishment for his actions. The main argument: In short, I’m not hugely happy with the idea…
December 10, 2013
Morning links
Bruce Bartlett at economix on the basic income, with some discussion of Jessica’s post here and Matt’s paper in Basic Income Studies. On a different topic: Nelson Mandela’s shift on markets;…
December 08, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto: In Five Parts
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote “A Communist Manifesto” in anticipation of an imminent earthquake in world politics. Of course, in 1848, that seemed plausible. A number of people…
December 06, 2013
Introduction to Logic
The following argument is unsound: Obama is president. Therefore, libertarianism is true. By pointing out that the argument is unsound, I don’t thereby reveal that I’m secretly a fascist….