Sunday, March 28, 2010

Good Sense about Property

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I highly recommend Less Antman's essay on property here . A teaser: I believe that property is a problem solver, a useful tool for achi...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Block Strikes Again

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Walter Block's latest commentary on my views on "capitalism" is here . I have nothing else to say.
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Alarmism or Realism?

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A standard charge against opponents of the medical insurance overhaul is that the dire predictions are nothing but alarmism. The argument i...
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What's Sauce for the Goose...

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Supporters of Barack Obama’s pro-industry health insurance overhaul are absolutely right to condemn the ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Block Says Yes to Capitalism

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My old friend Walter Block (we've known each other about 40 years) has written a rebuttal of my views on the value, or lack thereof, of...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Tea Party Disconnect?

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Someone had done his homework, but it wasn't Dick Armey. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post reports : A member of the [National Press ...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Corporate Land Grab in Africa

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Much of the modern world has been shaped, alas, by governments' grabbing land from peasants and yeomen, whose families had worked it fo...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Op-ed: Is Greece the Future of America?

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It may be possible to look into America’s future. How? Watch what’s going on in Greece. My latest op-ed is here .
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Capitalism versus the Free Market, cont'd

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This post by Chris Sciabarra from 2005 is well worth reading (again). I like this quote from Hayek from Capitalism and the Historians : In ...

TGIF: Jefferson's Economist

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In 1817 the Frenchman the Count Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) published his Treatise on the Will and Its Effects . Thomas Jefferson, who seve...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Capitalism versus the Free Market

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On Monday I flew east to give a lecture titled "Capitalism versus the Free Market," sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation ...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

John Reed, R.I.P.

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John Reed , perhaps the greatest interpreter of Gilbert and Sullivan 's signature patter songs, died February 13. He was a wonderful co...

Belloc

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To our ancestors not only for those few centuries during which we have record of their actions, but apparently during an illimitable past, t...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Summit: Holding the Context

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Government is a system to enable some people (the ruling class) to live off the productive effort of others. The longevity of the system req...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Freeman, March 2010

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The March Freeman is now online. In this issues: Jim Powell discusses Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt's big-government record...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Big Insurance Wins One from Obama

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Barack Obama this morning unveiled his plan for overhauling the health insurance industry in an effort to get the stalled legislative proces...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Roderick Long Hits Another Homerun

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In Tea and Sympathy , Roderick, with amazing brevity, captures what's wrong with the tea-party movement.

CPAC Highlights

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Here are my favorite moments from the big conservative CPAC meeting in D.C.: Dick Cheney. Need more be said? Scott Brown introducing Mitt Ro...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Back on Antiwar Radio

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Scott Horton had me back again on Antiwar Radio to talk about defense without the State. Hear it here .
Friday, February 12, 2010

Obama: Enemy of the Working Class

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Barack Obama, the current White House occupant, recently reaffirmed his support for employer-based health insurance. In my book that makes h...
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