Knife Control…..
It’s finally happened. Calls for mandatory sentences for “carrying a knife.” What about running with scissors? One surely sympathizes with parents of children who have been stabbed to death, but…
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Otsuka Responds (Very Inadquately) to a Comment
Michael Otsuka, author of Libertarianism Without Inequality, responded to a comment by my friend Paul Bogdanor in which Paul pointed out that Otsuka resorts to ad hominem attacks on libertarians…
Jacob Sullum on Greg Mankiw on Social Security
You can’t just tinker with Social Security. It’s broke. There is no “trust fund.” Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine has an admirable piece on the truth about Social Security. (More…
Something Is Rotting at the Periphery of the Libertarian Movement…..
What’s that terrible smell? It’s coming from a hatred of the United States that has become so strong that it has overpowered any lingering attachment to the ideas of liberty…
Very strange Behavior from the LRC crowd
I (and some of my colleagues) received a very odd little message from a lewrockwell.com columnist named Daniel McAdams: From: McAdams, Daniel [Daniel.McAdams@mail.house.gov] Sent: Thu 12/9/2004 5:07 PM To: Tom…
Sources of Economic Insight
I mentioned some great sources of economic insight and understanding in a posting below, but I forgot to mention one of the best and richest sources out there, econlib.org. Econlib.org…
David Brudnoy Signs Off
Boston libertarian radio show host and author David Brudnoy died today at the age of 64. I don’t think that we ever met, but his columns had an impact on…
Paul Krugman Embarrasses Himself Again
In his “Inventing a Crisis” in the New York Times (requires simple registration), the former economist (now political hit man) Paul Krugman writes, “since the politics of privatization depend on…
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Thanks to the beneficence of my friend Alan Zuschlag, I now own two more versions in English of The Epic of Gilgamesh. It’s a great story about the arrogance of…
Is a Completely Centralized Intel System Obviously Better?
I have no sufficiently well informed opinions on the best way to change the intelligence system to announce. But I wonder how if that’s also true of most of the…