Steven Pinker on free markets
19 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment
Hirsi Ali gets criticism of her newfound Christianity; responds
18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Freedom of religion, The Great Enrichment
Just recently Ayaan Hirsi Ali announced, after years of professing atheism (and rejecting her earlier Muslim faith(, that she’d become a Christian. This was announced in an article in Unherd, but she also discussed it briefly on a video, both of which I posted. Although she wasn’t explicit about what exactly she believed about Christianity, it’s […]
Hirsi Ali gets criticism of her newfound Christianity; responds
Some questions for those protesting for Palestine
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace
I’m frankly astonished at the scale, frequency and anger of protests held in solidarity for Palestinians in Gaza, which variously call for a ceasefire, call for “freedom” for Palestine and which variously accuse Israel of atrocities, using the language and statistics issued by the Gazan totalitarian theocrats. It is driven by a coalition of communists,…
Some questions for those protesting for Palestine
Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture [NLC 2023]
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: constitution law, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman 11/13/23
14 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, labour economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Sen. Sanders said he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible with Hamas. Hamas must go.
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Bari Weiss proposes ending DEI
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: affirmative action, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Bari Weiss, head of the Free Press, just published this article on her website, but it appeared in Tablet, in identical form, a few days ago. You can click on the headline below to read it, or go here to see it on her site. As the subheader on her FP article says, “It’s not […]
Bari Weiss proposes ending DEI
International Law in War
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics
A follow-up to my post on Bombing Your Way To Proportionality as one Natasha Hausdorff discusses more than just that aspect of waging war. She’s a barrister who got a law degree at Oxford University and an LL.M. specialising in public international law. She then clerked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel […]
International Law in War
MIKE GRIMSHAW: It’s about critiquing power, stupid!…
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics
Or the societal necessity to support (yet critique) Academic Freedom and Free Speech. Mike Grimshaw writes – The other day I attended the Free Speech Union AGM and was on the Academic Freedom panel. It was an interesting experience because while I am a committed supporter of Free Speech and Academic Freedom, in many ways […]
MIKE GRIMSHAW: It’s about critiquing power, stupid!…
Reflections on the TCU Capitalism versus Socialism Debate
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of socialism, Sweden
Two days ago at Texas Christian University, I debated Scott Sehon, chair of Bowdoin College’s Philosophy Department, on Capitalism versus Socialism. (Video forthcoming eventually). My opening statement was a slight variation on the one I wrote for an earlier debate on the same topic with Elizabeth Bruenig. Sehon’s opening statement was adapted from his Socialism:…
Reflections on the TCU Capitalism versus Socialism Debate
An Outpost of Western Civilisation
06 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, television, TV shows Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Bill Maher gets his usual shot in at the Republicans at the end of this little speech with which he wraps up his show, but that may not be earning him as many Brownie points with the US Left as it used to, because the rest of the speech is a brutal takedown of his […]
An Outpost of Western Civilisation
They’re going to change the common names of all birds named after people
06 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness, regressive left
The American Ornithological Society has issued a Diktat that all common bird names derived from a person’s name, or “eponyms,” are going to be discarded and replaced with descriptive names. The Latin binomials or “scientific names”, however, are not going to be changed. Below is the order from on high; click on headline below to […]
They’re going to change the common names of all birds named after people
New Rule: The War on the West | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, television, TV shows Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion well worth watching
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, top 1%, zoning
Convincing evidence for human evolution
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism Tags: evolutionary biology
I occasionally get questions like this one: “What do you consider the most convincing evidence for evolution?” My answer is usually “the fossil record combined with dating methods,” but I often add that “the evidence from biogeography is so convincing that I’ve never seen a creationist even try to rebut it.” (You can see some […]
Convincing evidence for human evolution
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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