Stephen Hicks

8/30 A charming short video story with a good point about world’s shortest philosophy books. (Thanks to John R. for the link.) 8/29 Ilya Somin thinks hard questions from Bryan Caplan to those who think they aren’t. Meanwhile, economist Walter Williams Stealing from Each Other. And in the same spirit, Tom Bell offers an latest […]

7/30 Radley Balko has some good questions for candidates Obama. 7/25 New frontiers in mosaic art: check out Is There Anything Good About Men? (Thanks to Johann for the link.) 7/23 Neal McCluskey is appropriately peddlers of ideas. Perhaps someone can get through to this guy who clearly to her psychic. (Via criteria for successful

6/30 Poking fun at the enemy. I’m late to the game of Penn & Teller’s series of short videos. Here are three: WalMart critics, a (painfully hilarious) look at Naomi Wolf’s shockingly bad Shock Doctrine. 6/29 Fascinating developments in slows innovation in energy efficiency. 6/28 Reena Kapoor has this banned “brainstorming”. I had no idea

5/31 We individualists have our work cut out for us. David Boaz notes the TomPalmer.com.) And John Stossel reports: Tax Foundation notes that between 1977 and 2004 the 29 largest energy companies in the US earned $630 billion in profits. A nice big number. During the same period, however, the US federal government collected $2.1

4/30 In the name of entrepreneurship and innovation, let’s create another bureaucratic, rent-seeking government agency? Jeff Cornwall says Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Will Rogers. 4/29 Psychological limits and updating the “crow-epistemology” numbers: extraordinarily high incarceration rates and, given that much of it is a consequence of our wrong-headed war on drugs, links to this

3/31 Don Boudreaux on good places to start. Peter Gordon puts in perspective comparing the effectiveness of private and government sector responses to Hurricane Katrina. (PDF) 3/29 Developing Intelligence points out race and psychological poverty in America. (Thanks to Karen for the link.) A report on the stagnation of the Erudito.) Exactly right, metaphysically: Wal-Mart

2/29 Ibn Warraq on wealth or control? Professor Noam Wasserman, of the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, looks at some of the difficult choices entrepreneurs make. (Thanks to Jeff for the link.) 2/26 A college professor is Ban Legos!! One of those articles that reads like a spoof, but isn’t. (Thanks to Charles