Nobility = No Ability
“What’s wrong with everyone nowadays?” So complained Prince Charles of the House of Windsor in a note to an aide after a typist had tried to get a promotion. What…
Political Theory
This Just In: “Anarchy” Not Necessarily Disorderly…
A new short report from the World Bank, “Anarchy and Invention,” shows that there are sometimes ways to achieve voluntary coordination without hitting people on the head. It draws on…
This Just In: “Anarchy” Not Necessarily Disorderly…
A new short report from the World Bank, “Anarchy and Invention,” shows that there are sometimes ways to achieve voluntary coordination without hitting people on the head. It draws on…
This Just In: “Anarchy” Not Necessarily Disorderly…
A new short report from the World Bank, “Anarchy and Invention,” shows that there are sometimes ways to achieve voluntary coordination without hitting people on the head. It draws on…
This Just In: “Anarchy” Not Necessarily Disorderly…
A new short report from the World Bank, “Anarchy and Invention,” shows that there are sometimes ways to achieve voluntary coordination without hitting people on the head. It draws on…
Why Lots of Libertarians Want to Live in New York (and Paris, London, Berlin, Miami, Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Madrid, Barcelona….)
Reason magazine editor Nick Gillespie explains why, although economic freedom is important, it may not be the most important thing around, at least, for some of us. Tim Lee offers…
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…
More on the Loathsome Che Guevara
The Washington, D.C. local gay-oriented paper, the Washington Blade, ran a review of the new movie about Che Guevara as starry-eyed romantic, The Motorcycle Diaries, and accompanied it with a…
Hungover Nationalists
It looks like a referendum to keep ethnic Albanians from enjoying any local autonomy in the Republic of Macedonia has failed. It’s a potentially very dangerous place and we can…
Catherine MacKinnon meets Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
In an invective filled little book, Only Words, Catherine MacKinnon argued that words can hurt and should be considered assault. (Her primary target was “pornography,” which includes virtually any advertising…