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Caught On Video The Cato

Caught On Video The Cato web site has a little video of me giving an informal talk on “The Value of Limited Government” at the Cato Institute before a group…

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Expect Another Robust Defense of Property

Junius has posted a thoughtful response to my defense of property. I’m going to write one more response to his fairly moderate critique , and then I’ll let it go…

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Blogger Party Who would have

Blogger Party Who would have predicted the world in which we live? When hyperlink text was first proposed, I remember people sneering at it as a kind of useless fad….

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In Defence of Property

As promised, I’m willing to take up the gauntlet to defend private property rights. That may not seem an especially daring thing to do, except, of course, in American and…

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Cool Site? Must be some

Cool Site? Must be some mistake. I was shocked to hear from my friend Laura Major that my humble little site was designated a “cool site” on National Review Online….

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Fun and Freedom Go Together

Fun and Freedom Go Together I’ve always thought that you should be able to advance liberty and justice and have a good time and make friends doing it. That’s the…

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Property, Property, Property

Junius offers a thoughtful critique of my views on property on his site. Expect a response from me this evening defending private property. Junius and others, notably philosophers such as…

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Oh What Tangled Blogs We

Oh What Tangled Blogs We Blog, When First … or, Libertarianism Caught Up in the Blogs: I just read a piece on AndrewSullivan.com that led me to a a fairly…

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Errors Away! Fukuyama Strikes Again

I’m listening to Francis Fukuyama on C-Span2 and he’s demonstrated again why I am leery about the claims he makes. He just asserted that Herbert Spencer was an advocate of…

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Movie Flash! Just saw the

Movie Flash! Just saw the movie Enigma. Excellent. Not only was the screenplay riveting, but the critique of totalitarian collectivism was profound. The portrayal of wartime Britain was outstanding and…

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