The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty
13 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in F.A. Hayek, liberalism Tags: Richard Epstein, The Constitution of Liberty
Karl Popper on the role of consensus in science
13 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: argument from authority, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, logical fallacies, philosophy of science, philosophy of the social sciences, sociology of science
Extended Manifesto of Bahar Mustafa
07 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: British politics, free speech
As you may know, this tosser has been targeted by the British police for hate speech. Let her flourish in all her dottiness.
Her outburst was not an incitement to immediate lawlessness nor did it incite a riot. Nor was her bile a threat against a specific person nor could cause any particular person to be alarmed. Basically, big talk in the pub which unfortunately had Wi-Fi. If the police had left her alone she would not have even got 15 seconds of fame.
Her manifesto says that she has “ZERO TOLERANCE on homophobia, queer-phobia, trans*phobia, racism, Islamaphobia, misogyny, ableism, cis-sexism, and classist behaviour.” Seems as though blasphemy is OK as long as it is not against Islam. Anti-Semitism seems to be okay as well by her.
If you want to go around rounding up the lefties for hate speech, the police would have nothing else to do given all bile they spit at capitalism and the successful.
About Me: Experience
Welfare
As part-time Women’s Officer at Goldsmiths I committed to weekly Women’s Drop in service open to ALL self-defining women and none-binary folk who have struggled with issues ranging from harassment, to childcare and access needs.
One in seven women are subjected to sexual assault on campus[1], and as promised, I worked closely with liberation officers to form a Safer Spaces Working Group in which we produced a system for reporting such incidents to ensure the aftercare of survivors. In light of these statistics I set up the Women’s Forum and the Survivor’s Support Network for students who had experienced sexual violence and abuse.
Campaigns and Awareness
I organised Feminist Society events, open to all genders, as a site for cultivating a strong sense of political growth and arousing discussion about issues affecting our daily experiences. Topics varied from “Intersectionality 101” and…
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10 Reasons You Might Be A Liberal
03 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, liberalism Tags: capitalism and freedom
Deirdre McCloskey on Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital, Changed the World
02 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, liberalism Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
This chart shows one of humanity's greatest modern accomplishments vox.com/2015/8/13/9145… http://t.co/QSxzps2i3Z—
Vox (@voxdotcom) August 13, 2015
The logical fallacy of special pleading
01 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, logical fallacies, philosophy of science
RT @oxfamnz @Oxfam what halved global poverty in 15 years? @NZGreens @RusselNorman @GreenpeaceNZ
30 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, Leftover Left, New Zealand Greens, Oxfam, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Twitter left
How can we eradicate #poverty by 2030? @Winnie_Byanyima wef.ch/1QvSVPW #development http://t.co/reBsT24BU3—
World Economic Forum (@wef) September 24, 2015
@syed17005919 @Noahpinion Look at what happened in a "world where corporations rule:" http://t.co/tAbbJW1Gvd—
David Andolfatto (@dandolfa) June 28, 2015
In 1980, the average American was 42x wealthier than the average Chinese. Now it's 4x wapo.st/1j6YcDc http://t.co/7afGdDf6mp—
Ana Swanson (@AnaSwanson) September 22, 2015
Parliament debates the Sustainable Development Goals today. But how did the MDGs fare? bit.ly/1gbcH6W http://t.co/r12PKVmPzK—
Commons Library (@commonslibrary) September 10, 2015
How the UN works: Set an unverifiable goal and then claim you achieved it. goo.gl/onJjCm http://t.co/bKm7zgeynH—
Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September 29, 2015
RT international blasphemy day
29 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Blasphemy, free speech
A handy guide to irrational nonsense
28 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, liberalism Tags: cognitive psychology, logical fallacies, philosophy of science, quackery, rational rationality
The Twitter Left believes in obedience to authority as long as they are in charge
21 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, liberalism, Marxist economics, Music, Public Choice Tags: political psychology, The Who
Yesterday’s hippies, today’s grumpy old man, believed they were sticking it to the man. The only real problem of the left wing of politics with authority was they and those like them were not in charge. Jeremy Frimer explains:
Together with my collaborators Dr. Danielle Gaucher and Nicola Schaefer, we asked both red and blue Americans to share their views about obeying liberal authorities (e.g., “obey an environmentalist”). In an article that we recent published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, we found that liberals were now the ones calling for obedience.
And when the authorities were viewed as ideologically neutral (e.g., office manager), liberals and conservatives agreed. Only when people perceived the authority to be conservative (e.g., religious authority) did conservatives show a positive bias…
Liberal versus conservative is like Yankee fans versus Red Socks fans. Each has its own flag to which it pledges allegiance. And each side has its own authorities to which it demands obedience.
The rise of democracy in the 20th century
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Age of the Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, rule of law
What is Little England
18 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: British culture, British economy, British history, British politics, growth of government, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, rational ignorance, rational rationality, size of government
Some confusion about what I mean by "liberal social democracy" and why it applies to Britain. An explanation: http://t.co/VqzAnVJyOB—
Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) August 17, 2015
Quick recap on why Corbyn not signing the anthem is in fact an important issue @OwenJones84 @mehdirhasan @JohnRentoul http://t.co/xQAPGAG2Of—
Paco Killr (@PacoKillr) September 17, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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