Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Welcome to my blog.
I created this blog to promote a classical liberal view of the world and champion the mass flourishing of humanity through capitalism and the rule of law.
The origin of this blog is explained in its first post.
There will be occasional pictures of cats too.
DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Tim Harding's writings on rationality, informal logic and skepticism
A window into Doc Freiberger's library
Let's examine hard decisions!
Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Thoughts on public policy and the media
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Econ Prof at George Mason University, Economic Historian, Québécois
Politics and the economy
A blog (primarily) on Canadian and Commonwealth political history and institutions
Reading between the lines, and underneath the hype.
Economics, and such stuff as dreams are made on
"The British constitution has always been puzzling, and always will be." --Queen Elizabeth II
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Laughing at Our Elites
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
WORLD WAR II, MUSIC, HISTORY, HOLOCAUST
News, reviews and talk all about the Tudors
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Researching the House of Commons, 1832-1868
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Blogging on parliament, politics and people, from the History of Parliament
Reflections on books and art
Posts on the History of Law, Crime, and Justice
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Calling out media myths
Exploring the Monarchs of Europe
Cutting edge science you can dice with
Small Steps Toward A Much Better World
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. - J Robert Oppenheimer.
The truth about the great wind power fraud - we're not here to debate the wind industry, we're here to destroy it.
Searching for the missing pieces of climate change communication
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Jul 02, 2014 @ 11:25:49
Congratulations! Tiffany’s Non-Blog has nominated you for the Liebster Award!
Please see details here:
Thanks and keep up the great blogging!
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Nov 19, 2014 @ 04:32:58
Hi, Jim –
Thanks for reading my blog, and thanks for the re-blog.
Interesting blog you have here. Our politics seem to be different (although with points of overlap), but I appreciate your take on things.
I wouldn’t normally take the time to post a reply, but the name of your blog (and the explanation in your first post) interest me. I did much of my grad work (unpublished) on the idea of utopia (and “dystopia”) in fiction, and most of my own writing (also, sadly, mostly unpublished) involves some degree of exploration of the concept.
Your idea that ‘this is already utopia’ isn’t rare. A reader won’t come across it all that much in fiction, but the idea has sometimes had a solid following in philosophy (is it within ‘pragmatism’? I forget these details when I’m not actively involved with the work — I know Leibniz held this interpretation, but that’s what you get when a mathematician ponders the universe).
The important thing that I’ve discovered about utopias is that they can’t exist, at least not in the traditional sense. This is not a question of ‘the perfect is the enemy of the good.’ Instead, my observation has been that any utopia is based on the conception of one individual (or a small group) of what the perfect world looks like. Every utopia is essentially the dictatorial or totalitarian view of an individual (or group) imposed at the expense of all others. Every utopia, in fact, is inherently a dystopia for anyone who does not share the narrow vision of its architect. This is why Orwell despised both fascism and socialism and is the greater point of “1984”; it’s why Hayek feared that both extreme capitalism and extreme liberal-progressivism would lead to serfdom; and it’s why in Huxley’s “Brave New World” the world controller, on revealing that disruptive elements are exiled to isolated islands, comments that “It’s lucky that there are such a lot of islands in the world. I don’t know what we should do without them.” That’s where all the interesting people are.
This of course, shouldn’t have a serious impact on your blog or your beliefs: I don’t think you intend to say that we live in a perfect world, only that, like Leibniz, you believe this is the best of all possible worlds. Or perhaps simply that this is the only world we’re ever going to have, so we ought to learn to live with it and do our best to improve it while we’re here.
Thanks again, and I wish you continued success on your island.
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Jan 23, 2015 @ 04:12:43
Jim, thank you for taking time to read our blog and “liking” it. Love your concept (as stated in the byline in the header). Best Wishes – Tony
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Aug 15, 2015 @ 04:16:45
Hi Jim, thanks for liking my post on Fruits & Votes!
I am excited to have found another classical liberal on the blogosphere, especially one who is also interested in institutions. I was wondering if I could ask you for some advice over email? I would greatly appreciate it.
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Jan 02, 2016 @ 19:48:11
I like optimism. I am very much in favour of giving the individual scope to follow his own instincts thinking that he is likely to make better judgements than some social planner sitting in a council office. Perhaps I am a libertarian.
The environmental movement has the status of mothers milk. We give these guys too much power to interfere in our lives. We drift towards totalitarianism in the name of sustainability and the environment.
Thanks for following. I will reciprocate.
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Nov 17, 2016 @ 03:42:17
Read (and follow please) my blog at eurationality.wordpress.com
Latest blog today is on the spat about whether or not the Treaty of Rome provided an unfettered right of freedom of movement to people – actually it provides freedom of movement to workers and even indicates that even that could have undesirable effects.
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Feb 17, 2017 @ 17:15:50
WordPress has a list of banned people. [ right wing activists ] including me.
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Feb 17, 2017 @ 17:16:32
leave wordpress censorship
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May 03, 2017 @ 04:09:19
Thank you for the re-blog Jim I appreciate your support.
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