The Heroic Institute for Justice and Its Good Works
The Institute for Justice is one of my very favorite organizations. They litigate for liberty, for justice, for rights. The New York Times (requires simple registration) has a piece today…
Political Theory
Weak Critique of Property
Hernando de Soto has done more than any other person in recent years to increase our understanding of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. The Other Path…
Speaking at Duke
I’ll be speaking Friday night and Saturday afternoon (February 4 and 5) at a “Free Your Mind” conference at Duke University, sponsored by Political Science Department Chairman Michael Munger and…
Robert Heilbroner: Honest Socialist
My colleague David Boaz has a sharp piece on Reason.com on “The Man Who Told the Truth: Robert Heilbroner fessed up to the failure of socialism.”
This is Definitely Worth Reading
A new journal, the NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, has just appeared. The inaugural issue is full of enlightening essays on the contributions of F. A. Hayek. (And if…
This from a Science Professor at MIT?
From today’s New York Times article, “Harvard Chief Defends His Talk on Women“: Nancy Hopkins, a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who once led an investigation…
Islam and Freedom (and Discounted Books)
I’m looking forward to Timur Kuran’s presentation at a Cato Institute conference next month of the results of his years of research and thinking about the prospects for liberty in…
Spontaneous Order
I’ll be at a seminar all day at George Mason University Law School on applications of the idea of spontaneous order (1, 2) to some of the disciplines (geography, political…
Job “Protections” Again
My friend from Canada Adam Allouba sent me a link to a column from the International Herald Tribune, “The Workplace: Firing’s easy in Denmark; So is Hiring.” It’s an important…
Job “Protections” Again
My friend from Canada Adam Allouba sent me a link to a column from the International Herald Tribune, “The Workplace: Firing’s easy in Denmark; So is Hiring.” It’s an important…