
P.J. O’Rourke on the new-found obsession of the 60s generation with safety
01 Aug 2014 Leave a comment

Justice Thomas, a colour-blind Constitution and Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
31 Jul 2014 Leave a comment

I have a dream – Martin Luther King Jr.
31 Jul 2014 1 Comment
in liberalism Tags: equality before the law, racism, The Age of Enlightenment

The state has no sources of money other than the money people earn themselves
28 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, public economics Tags: Margaret Thatcher
Market Failure, Considered as an Argument both for and Against Government| David Friedman
24 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, liberalism, libertarianism Tags: David Friedman, externality, government failure, market failure
Voltaire’s last words when asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed by a priest
23 Jul 2014 Leave a comment

The Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity
22 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
On a timeline of human history, the standard of living resembles a hockey stick – flatlining and then skyrocketing in just the last few centuries.
Specialization and trade explains the astonishing growth of productivity and output in such a short amount of time—after millennia of famine, low life expectancy, and incurable disease







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