Ayn Rand on Unsolicited Advice
Another favorite passage of mine from Atlas Shrugged that doesn’t qualify for the blockbuster category is a statement by Francisco...
Economic Philosophy
The Road to Serfdom is Paved by Conservatives
For the last ten years I have been baffled as I watched the conservative movement devolve into a weird wing...
Affidavit: NYT, WSJ, Other Criteria
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal editorials on the Mar-a-Lago search affidavit were more or less as expected....
Your New Student Debt
A friend on Facebook, Stanley Ridgley, posted this this morning: Congrats to everyone who didn’t have college debt. Now you...
An Interview Edith Kuiper about A Herstory of Economics
Author’s note: Edith Kuiper is a feminist economists and former president of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She is...
Kissinger’s Vision of Society
The Economist of last week reviews the latest book of Henry Kissinger who, at 99, does not seem to have...
The Habit of Criticism and Truth
In freer rather than less free societies, even if not truly free as Western societies stand, people get used to...
Hayek on Privilege
The conflict between formal justice and formal equality before the law, on the one hand, and the attempts to realize...
The Role of Privilege
In the Q&A period at the end of the Jordan Peterson talk I recently attended, Peterson addressed the issue of...
The Importance of Being Ethical
On April 20, I attended a talk given at Stanford University by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. It started with a...
