Fighting Back Against Spam…Peacefully
Score another one for voluntaryism and the free market in the fight against email spam. Tired of receiving tons of spam? Don’t want to join a coercive government registry or support any coercive...
View ArticleScience Fiction, the Internet, and Free Online Copies
“Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet” by Cory Doctorow This recent article on Locus Online, the online companion to Locus Magazine, the “magazine of...
View ArticleAncient Chinese historian recognized the market as a beneficial spontaneous...
Reading Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright’s Culture and Enterprise, I was struck by the following percipient and eloquent observation by Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch’ien (c.145-86 BC), over two...
View ArticleSchoolhouse Rock: Pirates and Emperors (Or, Size Does Matter)
Here’s a fantastic video dramatizing the fact that pirates and emperors are really the same thing. Here’s a direct link to the video on YouTube. Find out more here Hat tip to Sunni for alerting me to it.
View ArticleThe T3 Tax: Laying Down the Gauntlet
Economist Ross McKitrick, who along with Steve McIntyre played a major role in discrediting Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph, has an interesting proposal for a carbon emissions tax tied to actual...
View ArticleMurray Rothbard and Ron Paul Mentioned on NRO’s The Corner
Rothbard got a favorable mention on a National Review Online blog called The Corner. Ron Paul got a mention in the same post as well, in connection with Rothbard. About Rothbard, John Derbyshire wrote:...
View ArticleEcofascism in the Name of Fending Off Ecofascism
Micah White at The Guardian writes of the growing danger of ecofascism or environmental authoritarianism. Some environmentalists, like James Lovelock and Pentti Linkola, want to put democracy on hold...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Admits the Space Shuttle Was Never About Science
Promoting science is a major reason often given in support of the space shuttle program and against ending it. But the space shuttle program was never about science, as astrophysicist and celebrity...
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