Friday, November 26, 2021

TGIF: Racial Polarization Is Poison

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Be they "left" or "right," those who agitate for racial polarization seem to have no sense of the harm they could do to ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

"Coming to Palestine" Discussed on Podcast

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I discussed my Libertarian Institute book Coming to Palestine   on the podcast The Enragés (a project under the auspices of the Center for ...
Friday, November 19, 2021

TGIF: Rigged Political Language

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It's an old trick: gain advantage over others by hiding one's meaning behind euphemisms and other forms of linguistic camouflage and...
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Friday, November 12, 2021

TGIF: Equal Rights Now!

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A pet peeve of mine is the distinction, drawn even by some market enthusiasts, between so-called personal liberty (or civil liberties) and e...
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Friday, November 05, 2021

TGIF: Another Climate Conference

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Sometimes we've got to be grateful for hypocrisy. If those who pretend to be world leaders actually delivered a fraction of what they pr...
Friday, October 29, 2021

TGIF: The Challenging Art of Persuasion

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Anyone who hopes for a peaceful pro-liberty intellectual revolution is interested in the art of persuasion. But is it a practical art? Can e...
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Friday, October 22, 2021

TGIF: That Bloody Government Debt

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The government's attraction to borrowing is hardly a mystery. If the politicians had to extract every dollar they wanted to spend direct...
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Friday, October 15, 2021

TGIF: Inflation Is Evil

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When will Americans demand that the government denationalize money and free the market to do what it does better than anything else: serve ...
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Friday, October 08, 2021

TGIF: Looking for the Green New Deal

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I was all set this week to plunge into the details of the Green New Deal so I could see what new impositions the climate-alarmist politician...
Friday, October 01, 2021

TGIF: Why "Science Denial"?

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In a new book two professors of psychology, Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer, seek to explain why what they call "science denial" i...
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Friday, September 24, 2021

TGIF: Beware the Government-"Science" Complex

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The government-"science" complex ostensibly promotes the search for facts about our world, but it actually promotes and enforces o...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Why Do Climate Alarmists Dislike Climate Realist-Optimists So Much?

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F. A. Hayek, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist of the Austrian tradition, provided a possible answer to the question posed in the title. Alt...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Global Warming and Intuition

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I recently was asked whether the proposition that a "dramatic increase" in CO2 since industrialization could cause worrisome globa...
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Saturday, September 18, 2021

CO2 and Global Cooling

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If CO2 is implicated in global warming, not in its own right, but because it ​indirectly ​​leads to more water vapor , the dominant greenhou...
Friday, September 17, 2021

TGIF: Get Rich Quicker!

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"I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class...
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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Constitution Day, September 17

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Celebrate Constitution Day tomorrow by buying and reading America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited . Dedicated to the co...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Why I Write

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I write to improve my understanding and to entertain myself. If what I write does the same for others, that's icing on the cake.
Friday, September 10, 2021

TGIF: Bad Sign?

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When I see four of those yard signs on my morning walk, I chuckle. If I'm in a mischievous mood I might someday suggest a couple of meme...
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