Philosophy

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

12/19 Merry Christmas!! There, I’ve said it. Lester Hunt wonders about The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time. (Via classic advice on how to survive the holiday party season.) 12/18 Fruits of the Enlightenment: a fascinating New Yorker piece on from the UK to Philippines for a kidney transplant. A related story on

9/30 At Entrepreneur.com, ten businesses that likely differences between male and female entrepreneurs? 9/29 In a Swedish Institute for Social Research working paper, economists Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern wonder The Volokh Conspiracy.) To help with that intellectual deficit, here is a great list of free George Reisman’s The Government Against the Economy when I