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Plato, Rousseau and All That Jazz
Rousseau maintains this ideological preference consistently throughout his economic thought. We have seen that he was distressed that the possibility and actuality of shifting occupational roles would...
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Revamped and Reenergized
I’m going to begin some pretty intensive research and writing projects over the next month and a half, so you probably won’t hear from me much (keep the hooting and hollering to yourselves, please!). A...
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A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting. Listen to the fascists sing. Philosopher Kevin Vallier’s response to a hatchet job on FA Hayek in a stale (and apparently desperate) Left-wing publishing...
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American Idiots
The biggest mistake one can make, when on a remote trek, is to not bring a large variety of music. A paucity of music leads to repeating the same albums over and over again, which can have disastrous...
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BC’s weekend reads
Hongcouver Making a Case for Bishops’ Authority in the Second and Seventeenth Centuries Global Warming is not a Crisis Dondante From masterpieces to selfies (top link) Filed under: Links Tagged: art...
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Introducing… Jesus and Mo On private property and the commons Why Merkel’s Kindness to Asylum Seekers Could Reflect a German Soft Spot for Islam Why I find the Mthwakazi monarchy restoration...
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Freedom of the Athenians (book review) The Myth of the Myth of Barter Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence (pdf) From West Philly to Gulshan e Iqbal and Back Obama’s Witness for the...
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The dangers of football safety equipment Want less pollution? Privatize the roads (just ask the bicyclists) Octopuses Are ‘the Closest We Will Come to Meeting an Intelligent Alien’ Are Humans the Real...
View ArticlePhysical Goods, Immaterial Goods, and Public Goods
Public goods in economics have been a contentious theoretical issue since Paul Samuelson introduced the concept in 1954. The main sources of contention are what real world things are public goods, and...
View ArticleWhite rappers and hip hop culture
Post Malone has been at the heart of some manufactured controversy recently. Complex and other hipster millennial outlets (x, y) have criticized his appropriation of braids, grills and slang (AAVE), as...
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Catholic Debate Over Kidnapping A Jewish Boy Korey Maas, the Federalist God’s Own Music Ian Bostridge, New York Review of Books Church property cases and “neutral principles” Samuel Bray, Volokh...
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When Antarctica ran out of whales Lyndsie Bourgon, Aeon Even Boston was ankle deep in LSD Dominic Green, Spectator The Kind Cruelty libertarians must heed Wayland Hunter, Liberty Unbound The violent...
View ArticleSine qua non: No shortcuts
This past summer at language school a young man invited me to a party, which I had to refuse since there was a major exam coming up. In response he said, “But you’re smart, why do you have to study?”...
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West Coast jazz revival Ted Gioia, City Journal Augustine’s Cogito David Potts, Policy of Truth Iraq: A failure of ideas Sam Roggeveen, War on the Rocks Confucian patriarchy and the allure of communism...
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From Ilya Repin, a painter from the Russian Empire:
View ArticleOk, Americans – here is your Eurovision Guide
“Euro-what?” I hear you ask. Great! Set your coffee aside for a few minutes and indulge in a much-required and long-overdue cultural enlightenment. Eurovision Mania is on, so you better get with it!...
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Tanks alot: Trump has it right Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth The stateless superstar from a slum in Athens Mike Henson, BBC A forgotten physicist who killed his son and himself Eric Johnson, the...
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The language of taxation Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian InitiativeOn feudal exploitation Chris Dillow, Stumbling & MumblingA failed experiment John Tierney, City JournalEdward Van Halen...
View ArticleSome Monday Links
How Do We Define The Nightmare Before Christmas? (Tor) How an iconic Canadian rock band lured angry teens to the dark arts of Ayn Rand. (LitHub) Ill Liberal Arts (The Baffler) Genghis Khan, Trade...
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Why the Nineties rocked (UnHerd) AV Dicey as Legal Theorist (The Modern Law Review) Milton Friedman quoted Dicey here, so I was about to look him up, someday. Texas Town Shuts Down Her Home Day Care...
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