2/28 At the CEE, a profile socialized medicine is deadly. 2/27 The average American now has six weeks more leisure time per year compared to 1965. the connections between money and happiness. 2/24 Peter Beinart explains Gerald Baker weighs in heavily on the Summers affair. 2/23 At Scientific American, an extended review of voluntary military […]
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1/31 Well worth browsing: peripheral artists. 1/30 Frederick Douglass: “Everybody has asked the question . . . ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples
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6/30 David V. Cohn’s immediately before and after Tiananmen Square. And check out this inspiring poster, Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands. And here are Brett Holverstott’s fine Yahoo News, George Will, Tyler Cowen, and a number of posts by The Castle Coalition, a project of build a socially-useful hotel on Justice Souter’s
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4/30 Mathematical brilliance, hard work, and the serendipity of cultural networks combine to solve calculating the sometimes-awesome economic value of networks. (Thanks to Joe for the link.) 4/29 The web log of Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society. 4/28 Why rants on government-run health care. And for some good news: Hollywood’s anti-capitalist bias. (Note:
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3/31 At PointofLaw.com, a valuable collection of to-the-point columns on Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research and one from Jimmy Wales, the founder of the intriguing The Atlasphere.) 3/28 Non-bleeding-heart libertarian Bryan Caplan suggests conditional welfare for the poor: Marginal Revolution.) 3/26 A debate on free speech by law professors muzzle professors
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12/31 Let’s end the year on a happy note. Law professor Glenn Reynolds argues that good news indicators from 2004. (Via Instapundit.com.) 12/30 The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 may have killed 70,000 people, and Voltaire and Rousseau debated its implications for the theodicy problem. Rob Vischer raises the issue again in poignant form, since Why
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9/30 Jane Galt’s libertarian take on Che Guevera was a murderer and a totalitarian. 9/28 Weirdly fun photos and commentary from the injured ethnic pride as a factor in fostering Arab anti-Westernism. (Thanks to Michelle for the link.) 9/25 Economist Lawrence Reed explains Immanuel Kant’s concept of the sublime in art. And The New York
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7/31 Ed Hudgins tracks how many paternalist and socialist schemes John Kerry packed into his speech to the Democratic convention. And Robert Tracinski analyzes Kerry’s fellow Democrats’ bait-and-switch technique in their convention speeches. Note also Tracinski’s prediction that the Republicans won’t do much better at their convention next month. 7/30 Chris Goodman reconsiders Waller Newell’s
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2/28 Philosopher Roger Scruton asks: What is the purpose of criminal justice? 2/26 Friedrich von Blowhard on What books should every undergraduate read? 2/24 Steven den Beste on why Michael Moore’s new film is not an act of treason and who can and cannot sell flowers. 2/21 Politopia revises the political spectrum and has a
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Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism. Excerpt from Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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