April 21, 2015
The Benevolent State Fantasy
[The following is a guest post by David S. D’Amato. David is an attorney with an LL.M. in global law and technology. He is a columnist at the Cato Institute’s Libertarianism.org,…
April 20, 2015
Markets in Votes! Plenary Address at the 9th Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
I’m very pleased to say that I’ll be delivering the Plenary Address at the 9th Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs this Saturday. I’ll be…
April 20, 2015
Moral Panic–Everything Old is New Again
Those who are observing 4/20 may be interested (not, perhaps, today) in a wonderful example of moral panic from 1641. The broadside “The Sucklingtonian Faction: or Suckling’s Roaring Boyes” mocks…
April 16, 2015
Examples needed! Pro-market arguments that are based on the mutual benefits of trade.
I’m currently compiling a list of examples of pro-market arguments in the academic literature that are based on the benefits of trade to the trading parties. I’m especially interested in…
April 16, 2015
New Learn Liberty Video on the Death Penalty
Together with Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, the Institute for Humane Studies released a new, short video presenting one argument against the death penalty. I’m the narrator, but the…
April 15, 2015
Happy Tax Day News
The Molinari Institute (including the Center for a Stateless Society) has been declared a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organisation; details here.