From The Left’s Unlikely Alliance with Islam By Robert Eugene Simmons Jr. No titleFirst we encounter Marxism, which is a religion masquerading as a political movement. When we finally defeat …
A Little History For Context The term ‘Freedom’, and its near relation ‘Liberty’, have a long heritage. The babylonian words “ama-gi”, meaning “Return To The Mother”, written in cuneiform, …
Every day I read around twenty academic papers, a book, and something on the order of 300 blog postings on economics and politics, and a little philosophy. I have my …
I lost the source of this quote, but thought it captured the sentiment correctly: The government has been playing “extend-and-pretend” based entirely on the idea that pent up demand in …
“Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is A Better Way For Africa.” We know: Aid is bad. It creates corruption. It harms the economy. It makes nice happy …
I try to keep track of the ‘Grand Theories’. And I came across this one last week. I can’t find the book anywhere except online. I read what I could. …
Whenever something is scarce, some concept of property (the exclusive use of a resource) is necessary for the development of incentives, coordination, and production — even if the difference between …
In William Easterly’s post “Why can’t leading conservative magazine understand freedom?” he refers to a National Review article “China Teaches US Lessons About Economic Freedom“. I replied in the comments: …
In response to The Tea Party is a Marxist movement on Half Sigma, I created this diagram. The BiPolarity Of Social Class, And The Status Competition Between Them. I”ve posted …
From Arnold Kling, By way of the WSJ, By Peter Boettke: Mr. Hayek rightly warned of the dangers of central planning, Mr. Boettke says, but “he didn’t give a prescription …
Paul writes: Predictions I Wish Had Been Wrong Looking for some other stuff, I found this post from October 2008 in which I predicted a level of right-wing craziness about …
From Education And Its Discontents About three years ago, a scientific study was undertaken to examine some of the differences between the conservative and the liberal mind. One of the …
Egalitarianism is an attempt to either: a) obtain status by redistributing status to others b) obtain status at a discount, largely so that we have access to and opportunity for …
Would I Please Respond? I get a lot of comments along the lines of “Would you please respond to the criticism of your work in ______?” Um, no. Do you …
Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents By SCOTT SHANE, MARK MAZZETTI and ROBERT F. WORTH The New York Times In roughly a dozen countries — from the deserts …