Libertarian Miscellany


New Book Review: “Libertarianism Without Inequality”

The December issue of Reason magazine carries my review of Libertarianism Without Inequality by Michael Otsuka. When it’s available online, I’ll post a link to it.

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Interesting Thoughts on Gay Marriage and Civil Unions

The Independent Gay Forum has been posting some thoughtful essays on the election outcomes, gay marriage, civil unions, and federalism, and plenty of other topics relevant to anyone interested in…

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More Smears of the Ukrainian Opposition, OR, Oppose Whatever the U.S. Gov’t Wants, Support What It Opposes

At least some of the screaming zanies at antiwar.com, echoing their comrades in nuttiness at Lewrockwell.com, have now dubbed the crisis in Ukraine a coup…..by the opposition! According to the…

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More Smears of the Ukrainian Opposition, OR, Oppose Whatever the U.S. Gov’t Wants, Support What It Opposes

At least some of the screaming zanies at antiwar.com, echoing their comrades in nuttiness at Lewrockwell.com, have now dubbed the crisis in Ukraine a coup…..by the opposition! According to the…

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More Smears of the Ukrainian Opposition, OR, Oppose Whatever the U.S. Gov’t Wants, Support What It Opposes

At least some of the screaming zanies at antiwar.com, echoing their comrades in nuttiness at Lewrockwell.com, have now dubbed the crisis in Ukraine a coup…..by the opposition! According to the…

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More Smears of the Ukrainian Opposition, OR, Oppose Whatever the U.S. Gov’t Wants, Support What It Opposes

At least some of the screaming zanies at antiwar.com, echoing their comrades in nuttiness at Lewrockwell.com, have now dubbed the crisis in Ukraine a coup…..by the opposition! According to the…

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The Best Source of Arguments for Economic Rationality

That would be Cafehayek, run by economists Russ Roberts and Don Boudreaux. (I’ve asked Don if he’d post the wonderful letters-to-the-editors that he sends off to papers around the country…

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Expert on Ukrainian Politics Speaks

Tom DiLorenzo, a former economist, has issued a fatwa on the Lew Rockwell blog: Viktor Yushchenko is a lying CIA tool, as are millions of other Ukrainians. DiLorenzo has applied…

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A New Ukraine vs. a Revival of the Old USSR? (And a Peek into the the American Fever Swamp)

The events in Ukraine show that the opposition is keeping up the pressure. The refusal of television journalists to continue “telling the government’s lies“, the continued turnouts in Kiev, and…

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Ideology in the Academy

My (young) old friend Dan Klein — who arranged for my lecture at Santa Clara University — has been doing some interesting work studying ideological alignment in the academy (and…

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