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Notes On Liberty

2012–2013

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December 2013

  1. Лицо терроризма в России
  2. California’s Neighborhood Legislature Initiative
  3. Around the Web
  4. Предновогодняя запись
  5. Cronismo…você sabe o que é isto?
  6. Still on vacation but wanted to make sure everyone saw this…
  7. Happy Holidays
  8. Amo muito o bem público produzido pelo setor privado
  9. Vovô não quer BigMac. E agora, Ricardo?
  10. Consumerism and Christmas
  11. Kalashnikov, hero and inventor, is dead, but how did he do it?
  12. Around the Web
  13. Right-wing Marxists and the libertarian’s lament
  14. Pope Francis: Does An Anti-Capitalist = A Socialist?
  15. Weekend Question: What to do about the violence in South Sudan?
  16. The Iranian Nuclear Deal: An Agreement for All
  17. Pesos, medidas e as instituições
  18. From the Comments: Iran, Nationalism and Satire
  19. Antes do feminismo existe o indivíduo. E o que ele pensa?
  20. The Almost Turk and the Jew
  21. Ah, se tivessem dado ouvidos às evidências científicas…
  22. The political Left and violence: An uncomfortable, subconscious symbiosis
  23. Around the Web
  24. The Pope, Capitalism, and los Yanqis
  25. Happy 100th Birthday to the Federal Reserve!
  26. Libertariansk feminism
  27. Pope Francis on Economics
  28. Uruguayan government: “monopoly” on pot
  29. A Conspiracy of Debacles: the Advent of Single Payer?
  30. Cell Phones on Airliners?
  31. Somebody wake Dr Delacroix from his midday, wine-induced nap
  32. Русские и Евромайдан
  33. Middle Eastern Musings: Why I Blog
  34. Great (new?) resource for historical economic data
  35. The Canons of Economics
  36. Black Immigration: Taking Myself Behind the Barn*
  37. Around the Web: Globalization, Racism and Surfing
  38. A (very) Quick Primer on Natural-Rights.
  39. Is the European Union “socialist”?
  40. Free Trade in Asia
  41. A Drip of Local Flavor
  42. Lost Innocence.
  43. Distribution of Wealth — A Distortion of Focus
  44. The Unwritten Rules of Integrity in the Free Market
  45. Equality and Fairness
  46. Is there such thing as Conservative Liberalism?
  47. Inequality
  48. Climate Change and the First Amendment
  49. Anti-Tesla bill rejected by Ohio Senate.
  50. The Tyranny of Ambiguity: “Hate Speech” laws in Japan and subtle Western imperialism
  51. College Football Blurb

November 2013

  1. Here’s what I knew about education when I was 18
  2. Around the Web
  3. From the Comments: Secession and Nationalism in the Middle East
  4. Blind Faith
  5. A Warm Welcome
  6. Around the Web: US-Iranian “Peace Accords” Edition
  7. IP Anyone?
  8. Debunking the Wage Slavery Myth
  9. Bad News Bears: Ukraine, Russia and the West
  10. New Mexico’s Police Breaking Badly
  11. From the Comments: Federalism, Small States and Central Banks
  12. Refugies dans l’ irrealite?
  13. What I learned in Community College
  14. At “Somewhat Reasonable”: Laws versus Regulations
  15. Obama’s Utilitarian Foibles
  16. Gun control: Centralized vs. Dispersed
  17. Around the Web
  18. The French revolution
  19. Une culture politique du n’importe quoi.
  20. Corrupção e Julgamento
  21. Keynes on Free Trade
  22. A Warm Welcome
  23. O Desconforto da Pobreza
  24. From the Comments: Is US Economic Stagnation A Myth?
  25. Production bias in economic intervention
  26. The Tyranny of Darth Obama
  27. Liberty & Productivity
  28. Криминализация средств массовой информации
  29. Around the Web
  30. The Meaning of Social Science: Ideology, Private Life, and the Internet
  31. From the Comments: Populism, Big Banks and the Tyranny of Ambiguity
  32. French Musings on Veterans’ Day
  33. How China could Conquer the US
  34. Unequal Poverty: Tricks (Part Two of two)
  35. Update; a Woman
  36. What was the world’s reaction to Kristallnacht?
  37. Around the Web
  38. Wake up the People.
  39. A Warm Welcome, and other assorted editorial duties
  40. Gentrifying Tacky Sac: not bad if you can stomach the corruption and iniquity
  41. Filosofiska skillnader och likheter mellan liberalism och libertarianism
  42. On the great and glorious skeeviness of “Lean In” and Sheryl Sandberg
  43. Growing Poverty, a Declining Standard of Living: Watch Out for…. Part 1.
  44. What do Mexicans read for intellectual nourishment?
  45. Forty years after the launch of feminism
  46. American Foreign Policy: Predictions, Assumptions and Falsehoods

October 2013

  1. Liberty Movement Cannot Just Rely on the Right
  2. Investment & Prudence
  3. Around the Web
  4. Civilization: A Praxeology
  5. “Could we build a bridge between Austrian Economics and New Institutional Economics? – A Pre-History of Soft Budget Constraint”
  6. What is Reality?
  7. Freedom of Speech? No Such Thing!
  8. Shopping in communism versus capitalism
  9. L’Espionnage américain en France.
  10. Thank You for Your Patience
  11. From the Comments: The four broad pillars of the market-based economy
  12. Around the Web
  13. YAL member speaks at County Cannabis Regulatory Hearing
  14. From the Comments: Liberalization is about much more than just the economy
  15. What Ails You, Economy?
  16. A Warm Welcome
  17. Criminalizing Innovation
  18. Breaking Bad Policy of Drug Prohibition (spoiler alert).
  19. Brandon’s Bad Numbers
  20. Was I too Rash on Juries and Nullification?
  21. Why is India so poor? A macro approach
  22. Around the Web
  23. FATCA closes Americans’ Foreign Bank Accounts
  24. Does the New York Times read NOL?
  25. The Federal Shutdown, the Debt Ceiling and an Extremist’s Morning After
  26. Про политику народных волнений в России
  27. Around the Web
  28. Which is bigger Ponzi scheme?
  29. What the Hell is a “RINO” Anyway???
  30. Balanced Budget Amendment Slated to be Rejected by Tomorrow
  31. Separation of Church and State (More Islamophobia!)
  32. Obamacare: Working As Planned?
  33. Financial Armageddon; Hello Mongolia; Hello, Uganda!
  34. Inequality Unexplained
  35. News you can abuse from the New York Times
  36. La Fermeture du gouvernement fédéral
  37. Extremist Republicans Did the Right Thing
  38. Misunderstanding freedom of the press
  39. Around the Web: The Last Psychiatrist
  40. US Foreign Policy in 2013: An Assessment
  41. Imperialism or Federalism: The Occupation of South Korea
  42. Around the Web
  43. Standard Oil, Like a Phoenix Rising from the Ashes (Bust the Trusts! The Right Way for Once!)
  44. An Exemplar of Governance: The United States and Chinese Citizens
  45. Statists applaud death of unarmed mother amidst faked Gov’t shutdown
  46. Franklin D Roosevelt’s America: A Progressive’s View
  47. The Government Shutdown of 2013
  48. A Glimpse into Ottoman Syria
  49. All’s Quiet in the West

September 2013

  1. Bad News Bruins (Pac-12 football in ya mouth)
  2. Around the Web: PoliSci edition
  3. The Roots of Liberty Online
  4. Cruz Barn Burner: Strawman or Paper Tiger?
  5. You know what really grinds my gears?
  6. Brookline Selectmen decided to upset their Econ 101 professors
  7. Relative or Absolute Advantage: A Question of Conditional Cooperation
  8. Ron Paul, Change Agent
  9. A Warm Welcome
  10. A close encounter with a black hole of church/state derp
  11. Why Would Somali Militants Attack A Kenyan Shopping Mall?
  12. The Israeli-American Friendship: A Myth Debunked
  13. Around the Web
  14. Around the Web: Harvest moon over Uranus
  15. Несколько слов про Сирию
  16. How I met your G-20
  17. A Note on Taxation
  18. Mundane economic speculations: Oil changes
  19. Why Roe v. Wade isn’t nearly as relevant as you’d like if you’re a grating ideological drone
  20. Bête et méchant et bête.
  21. Oh hell yes, Philadelphians being racist, corrupt and belligerent again
  22. More gringos who won’t do farm work unless they’re told where there’s farm work
  23. Secession Within the US?
  24. Is the United States on “Strike”?
  25. There’s Something to be Said for Consistency, but…
  26. To be Perfectly Frank, on Today of All Days
  27. Editorial Duties
  28. Some reflections on the Right to Private Property
  29. Another White Whine from apple country
  30. I picked crops under the hot sun all day this Labor Day. What did you do this Labor Day? Do work!

August 2013

  1. Obama’s Newest War Campaign: Syria?
  2. I Supported Ron Paul Because of Weed… So What?
  3. Path Dependency and the Republican Party
  4. From the Comments: The New Internationalism
  5. Around the Web
  6. First World Camping Problems, USDA Tyranny, a Fish Story, and Some Epic Snapshots
  7. Relative or Absolute Gains: A Question of Conditional Cooperation
  8. More Dramatic News on Climate Change
  9. Racial murder and dereliction of duty by the press
  10. From the Comments: American Politics without the Romance
  11. What Obamacare is Really About
  12. Jean Bethke Elshtain: 1941-2013
  13. A Problem with Political Authority
  14. Legitimizing Terrorism in Egypt
  15. A Libertarian Moment in the US?
  16. Around the Web
  17. Your weekly multimedia derp: Fox News shills for a talentless bottomfeeding trustafarian “musician” from La Jolla by way of concern-trolling the poor taxpayer
  18. A Cheaper, Stronger Army?
  19. The Obama Presidency as the Pinnacle of Progressivism
  20. The Arab Crack-Up: Are New States on the Way?
  21. Не все так просто в сказочной стране
  22. Little House of Horrors on the Prairie
  23. Eye Candy
  24. Foreign Languages and Self-Delusion in America
  25. The Snowden Reset
  26. What are valid criticisms of libertarianism? What are libertarian ideas that you don’t agree with?
  27. How persistent are cultural traits? A case study of anti-Semitism in Germany
  28. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  29. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  30. Around the Web: The (tits and) ass end of the internet
  31. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  32. US Allies in Egypt: Economically Adept or Not?
  33. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  34. From the Comments: How, Exactly, Does One Define Terrorism?
  35. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  36. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism

July 2013

  1. Words are Deeds for Young Americans
  2. Quentin Skinner on Liberty and Security
  3. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  4. Around the Web
  5. From the Comments: Are Imperialists Just Winging It?
  6. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  7. Feds File Charges Against SAC Capital
  8. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  9. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  10. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  11. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  12. A Compulsory Education Abolitionist’s Thoughts on Common Core
  13. Around the Web: The Failure of Detroit and the Demagogue of Vienna
  14. My Latest Op-Ed: “…Libertarians Are Selfish and Stupid”
  15. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  16. Towards World Peace: Free Trade Edition
  17. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  18. Around the Web: the underbelly of Portland
  19. “Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior”
  20. Around the Web
  21. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  22. Zimmerman, Martin and Racism in America: Who’s Really Promoting Prejudice?
  23. La mort d’un jeune homme, le verdict, la montee du fascisme, le racisme.
  24. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  25. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  26. Про некоторые стереотипы мышления
  27. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  28. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  29. What I’ve Been Thinking All Along
  30. Libertarian Foreign Policy: A Dialogue on Imperialism
  31. The Zimmerman Verdict, Racism and Trial by Jury
  32. Around the Web
  33. From the Comments: Non-Interventionism Versus Isolationism
  34. Would A Libertarian Military Be More Lethal?
  35. Congratulations to Hank!
  36. Subsidy and accreditation
  37. Around the Web
  38. Another Housing Bubble?
  39. From the Comments: Open Borders, Immigration and the Sociology of Gradualism
  40. Libertarianism and Psychology
  41. No Capitalism Means No Peace: Egypt Edition
  42. The Immigration “Reform” Bill: RINOs, Labor Unions and a Libertarian Alternative
  43. About the time I did grassroots campaigning for a high-end gigolo
  44. Life Unplugged
  45. Around the web: Casual Friday
  46. Around the Web: Rumpy Pumpy
  47. Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Zionism’s Colonial Roots
  48. Around the Web

June 2013

  1. Internal Revenue Service Even Handed After All
  2. Yo, bro, suck it up and pray!
  3. Edward Snowden is a Commie
  4. The Decline of the State?
  5. Around the Web
  6. Leon Hadar on Obama’s Syria Decision
  7. Classical Liberals Who Weren’t Right About Everything
  8. Buddhist Leaders Call on Myanmar to Expel Muslims
  9. Tales of other cities: tweakers, hobos, some odds and ends, and Santa Rosa’s “welfare block”
  10. Про пиратство, русский менталитет и национальное самосознание
  11. Critical Junctures and Path Dependency in “Why Nations Fail”: Implications for U.S. Foreign Aid Policy
  12. The Real IRS Problem
  13. What I’ve Been Reading
  14. Libertarian Countries and Libertarian Societies
  15. I’m Done
  16. Eye Candy
  17. Snowden and Me
  18. Around the web: other civil libertarian perspectives on privacy
  19. Impeach James Clapper
  20. From the Comments: Federalism, Local and Global
  21. Around the Web
  22. Just Testing…
  23. Cognitive Blocks and Libertarianism
  24. Updates and Accolades
  25. Logical Fallacies in the Press
  26. Why are there no “Libertarian Countries”?
  27. Maryland v. King: Scalia’s Noble Dissent
  28. Capitalism: Making Lives Miserable Since at least the Late 18th Century
  29. Around the Web
  30. A note on compulsory IRS linedancing
  31. Istanbul: The Protests
  32. Around the web: class, work, and a call for the totalitarian oppression of servants
  33. No-smoking law in Russia

May 2013

  1. Around the Web
  2. Breton Religion
  3. Update on the “tunnel people”
  4. Adventures in Christian Vulgaria
  5. Liberalization in India, and NOT Just in Markets
  6. Clean B****oles Becoming A Rarity in Socialist Venezuela
  7. A Possible Explanation for Greece’s Economic Woes
  8. President Obama Wins War on Terror
  9. La mauvaise foi
  10. The Obama Administration: RIP
  11. Reading Hayek in Beijing
  12. ObamaCare Snark
  13. Duckshit and Bullshit in Santa Cruz, California.
  14. Around the Web: Disappearances
  15. Optimism and Despair in a World of Injustice
  16. Around the Web
  17. Ham-Fisted Coercion and Incompetence versus the Invisible Hand of Self-Interest
  18. Markets Strengthen Moral Values
  19. What is the “Chinese Dream”?
  20. See the Cat: The Heart of Economics in One Story
  21. Around the Web
  22. The IRS Crimes: a Gift from Providence to Libertarians
  23. Prêtez attention aux scandales (pluriel) de l’administration Obama
  24. Around the Web
  25. Genocidio(s) y modernidades múltiples
  26. Zarine wind over Syria. Pt.2
  27. Un petit baiser pour le cinéma Français
  28. Another Fascinating reddit Thread
  29. The IRS and Fascism
  30. Eye Candy
  31. The Triumph of Liberalism Over Socialism
  32. Around the Web
  33. Petitioning for a Redress of Grievances: Chinese Style
  34. El grave error del libertarianismo guatemalteco en el juicio contra el ex-dictador Efraín Ríos Montt
  35. Eye Candy
  36. L’Amérique et les armes: mise à jour.
  37. “Europe’s Job Seekers Flock to Germany”
  38. Climate Change Worse (No Matter How You Look At It)
  39. Around the Web
  40. Welcome to the New Bohemia
  41. Words of Wisdom
  42. Around the Web
  43. Looking into the Crystal Ball
  44. Economic Rationality
  45. Zarine wind over Syria
  46. Interesting Thread on Reddit Between True Believers and the Devil
  47. Kareem, UCLA and Time Travel
  48. I Agree with Obama on Guantanamo but….
  49. Cool PDF on the Dishonesty of Debate
  50. From the Comments: Going Into Syria

April 2013

  1. Questions About Going Into Assad’s Syria
  2. Around the Web
  3. Imperialism: The Illogical Nature of “Humanitarian” Wars
  4. Syria and the Failure of Imperialisms (Old and New)
  5. More graveyards of the American Empire
  6. Around the Web
  7. Thoughts’n’gunslingers
  8. University Graduation Rates are Too High
  9. Libertarian IQ
  10. The Absurdity of Security in an Age of Fledgling Liberty
  11. Around the Web
  12. Is It Time to Reject African States?
  13. Sobre genocidio, filosofía y diálogos
  14. Life underground
  15. Moral Markets and Immoral “Capitalism”
  16. Around the Web
  17. Débat sur le menteur.
  18. Eye Candy
  19. Un Menteur bien français
  20. Has Foreign Affairs Been Reading NOL?
  21. Bush’s War
  22. Thoughts about “sofa fascism”
  23. Looking Backward: A Review
  24. A Conservative
  25. Around the Web
  26. Cyprus, the EU and Competing Currencies
  27. More on Chinese Culture

March 2013

  1. Lies and Untruths – Part Two
  2. The Revolution That Was Naught
  3. Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
  4. Free Banking Beats Central Banking
  5. Socialism as an insurance policy for the wealthy
  6. Homosexual Marriage
  7. FDR, Uncle Fred, and the NRPB
  8. Around the Web
  9. Liblogic
  10. A Free Market in Medical Services
  11. Lies and Untruths
  12. Self-identity and self-awareness
  13. Humanitarian Wars can be Unjust too
  14. Unemployment: What’s To Be Done?
  15. The Intricacies of Political Life in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Is Islam Prominent?
  16. Afghanistan, Conservatives and Libertarians. Telling off the King.
  17. Around the Web
  18. How to Extirpate Poverty
  19. From the Comments: China and the Future of Nationalism
  20. A Wide Net; Cyprus Lesson; Conversations with my Ghost; Unfeminism; the Blooming Sequoia
  21. Unemployment: What Is It?
  22. Religion or Institutions: A Final Word
  23. Some introductory links
  24. Russian and US Relations: Definitely Cooler and a Further Inquiry Into Why This Is
  25. The Predictable Failure of the Iraq War
  26. Around the Web
  27. How to Rebut the Condescending Leftist
  28. Cooling of relations between the U.S. and Russia
  29. Government and Governance
  30. Am I Smarter Than Everyone? Experts and Advocates (Revised)
  31. Rebirth of Competitive Federalism
  32. Pot Shops and the Evils of Government
  33. Around the Web
  34. Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion
  35. Just to say hello
  36. Senate Democrats want Crazies with Guns out in the Street
  37. Maps in History
  38. Porn Preferences in China
  39. NotesOnLiberty featured on RealClearHistory
  40. Global Warming: So?
  41. Around the Web
  42. Glenn Greenwald on the Hypocrisy of the Left
  43. Rand Paul for President!
  44. The Volcker Rule
  45. The World of the Inuktitut
  46. More on Rand Paul’s Filibuster
  47. Religion or Institutions? An Ongoing Dialogue
  48. Research Readings
  49. Cutting the Three Lifelines in Full Daylight; Boy Rape from Unexpected Quarters
  50. Seeking Recommendations
  51. From the Comments: Islam’s “Violent Penchant”; Shooting Rampages and Stonings
  52. Baby’s a Tuna, and It’s Feeling Blue
  53. Hugo Chavez, Fascist/Socialist (Same Thing) Dead at 58
  54. Rand Paul: Filibusterer Extraordinaire
  55. Making Whistle-Blowing Pay
  56. Origins of Terrorism in the Middle East
  57. Aggressive Swimming Rabbits: Conservative Violence, Abortion
  58. Obama’s Haitian Policy
  59. Sardines at Midnight
  60. Justice for Bangladesh?
  61. The Tragedies of Haiti

February 2013

  1. Shoot the Shorts
  2. Scotland and Secession
  3. The Labor Theory of Value
  4. No Tax Favors for Government Employees
  5. Changement de marée?
  6. Around the Web
  7. Methodological Individualism
  8. Free Banking Explained
  9. Bank Deregulation: Friend or Foe?
  10. An Act of Self-Defense: A Review
  11. Around the Web
  12. North Korea’s “Artificial Earthquake”: What is to be Done?
  13. L’ Anarchisme et la recherche de la liberté: recommendations des Déserts du Nouveau Monde.
  14. Horse Meat and the European Union
  15. Possession Two (or too)
  16. Possession
  17. Credit Booms Gone Wrong
  18. Equal Pay for Equal Work: The New/Old Trojan Horse; Unfairness
  19. I Have Been Summoned (Poll!)
  20. Rare Earth Elements: Stockpile or Markets?
  21. Around the Web
  22. Pigeonholing Pigs
  23. Telling the Truth and Tarentino, Liberals, the Secretary of State, and the President
  24. Global Warming: Be Skeptical
  25. Taking Guns by Executive Order
  26. Religion and Liberty
  27. Gold as Implicit Money
  28. Around the Web
  29. Gold and Money, II
  30. Gold, Interest, and Land
  31. Gold and Money
  32. “How China Became Capitalist”

January 2013

  1. The Civilization Bubble
  2. Who Owns the Fed?
  3. The Future of Liberty: Reason or Superstition, Abortion Edition
  4. Government Programs, Coffee and Bread
  5. The Beltway Consensus: Iraq Edition
  6. Adamson’s Book Signing
  7. What’s Up with Inflation?
  8. Open Season on White Males
  9. Is the Free Market Ethical?
  10. National-Socialist Management Practices; No Obama Derangement Syndrome
  11. Hating Energy Dependence, Not Loving Energy Independence
  12. Boombustology: A Review
  13. (The Myth of) Gun Control as a Panacea
  14. Abortion, the Conception of Life, and Liberty
  15. Around the Web
  16. Inside Insider Trading
  17. Fresh Blood!
  18. Libertarianism and Feminism
  19. The Long and Short of Short Selling
  20. Environmentalism and Property Rights
  21. The Logic of Logic
  22. Don’t Forget
  23. Sardines: A Sordid Story
  24. RIP James Buchanan
  25. Government’s War on Sharing
  26. I Bid $100,000,000,000,000,000
  27. Soft Fascism?
  28. Plastic Pollution in the Ocean
  29. The Holy Roman Empire was…
  30. Federal Deposit Insurance: A Banking System Built on Sand
  31. The Sales Tax Petard
  32. Around the Web
  33. GDP: Who Needs It?
  34. From the Comments: Militias and the Second Amendment
  35. How to Make the New Year Better
  36. Sharon Presley’s Newest Projects

2012 398

December 2012

  1. What I Did Not Write About Enough in 2012
  2. Petaluma
  3. Around the Web: Leftist Edition
  4. From the Comments: Red State Blue State Edition
  5. Santa Brought Me A Laptop
  6. America and Firearms (Explained to Overseas Readers)
  7. What is a Fair Share of Taxes?
  8. The Mystique of Hedge Funds
  9. Forward to the Failed Past
  10. The Pigou Club
  11. Around the Web
  12. Leaving the Left: Three Dangerous Features I Left Behind
  13. No Upticks in Mass Shootings…
  14. Around the Web
  15. The Fiscal Cliff
  16. Guns and Debate: An Issue Within An Issue?
  17. Autism and National Public Radio
  18. End Prohibition on Self-Defense in Schools
  19. Race and Ethnicity
  20. No, Thanks.
  21. Labor Unions as Squeegee Men
  22. The Israeli-Palestinian Mess: Some Historical Context
  23. A Glimmer of Freedom in Health Care
  24. Reflections on the Income Tax
  25. Finals Week (with an update 12/9)
  26. The Disaster: A Teenage Victory
  27. Abe Lincoln and the Historical Record
  28. From the Comments: Foreign Policy and the Rule of Law
  29. How I Know What I Know. How Do You Know What You Know?
  30. Globalization: Its Context and Its Virtues

November 2012

  1. The UN vote on Palestinian Question: Some Comments
  2. God I’m Lazy…
  3. Around the Web
  4. Secession within the EU?
  5. The Case for More States in Africa? Anarchy, State or Utopia?
  6. Around the Web: “I’m Stuffed” Edition
  7. What Exactly is Profit, Anyway?
  8. Methodological Individualism
  9. Israelis Deliberately Slaughter Palestinian Civilians; Assad Cool!
  10. Around the Web
  11. Go Bruins!
  12. Atomic Radiation and Mental Health
  13. Around the Web
  14. Warren Harding’s Fiscal Cliff
  15. National Economic Systems: An Introduction for Intelligent Beginners – 3
  16. Le nouveau mandat d’Obama
  17. Foldvary on the Concept of “Forward”
  18. National Economic Systems: An Introduction for Intelligent Beginners – 2
  19. Around the Web
  20. Brandon Vindicated (and Relieved!)
  21. From the Comments: Social Conservatives Need to Go
  22. Obama: Any Silver Lining?
  23. The View from California
  24. The End of the Conservative Media? Or Why Brandon Was Right (Sorta)
  25. Any Thoughts on the Election?
  26. Is the State Responsible for Declines in Violence?
  27. “Ayn Rand Explained”

October 2012

  1. Jews and Palestinians: Is the Elusive Peace Close By?
  2. “Gold and Money”
  3. The Rationality of Anti-Antisemitism; The Currency Issue Made Simple
  4. Homicide and the State
  5. Immigration: More on Conservative, Liberal Ignorance
  6. Legal Immigration: Two Fallacies
  7. Bizarre Conservative Ideas About Immigration
  8. Atlas Shrugged Part II
  9. Power and Happiness (President Obama in India)
  10. Illegal Immigration: Bad Faith and Mental Confusion
  11. The Year is 1534, and…
  12. Big Horrors, Small Horrors
  13. Race in America Right Now
  14. Language and Informational Prisons: The Case of Arabic
  15. Around the Web: Nobel Prize Edition
  16. An Afternoon Fog
  17. Ron Paul and the American Right
  18. The Myth of the Noble Savage
  19. Karl Marx and Special Interests
  20. My New Book
  21. Pour le Nouvel An juif
  22. Not Quite
  23. Around the Web
  24. Is Liberalism Dead?
  25. Patriotism, the Last Refuge of Scoundrels
  26. A European Union of More Nations?
  27. Socialism and Free Speech: Forget About It
  28. Is Christianity Radical?
  29. Whither Hobsbawm’s Left?
  30. Around the Web
  31. Separatism (Secession) in Spain, and the Rest of the World
  32. Updates
  33. Iraq to Jews: Don’t Come Back
  34. Look Who’s Practicing Trickle-Down Economics

September 2012

  1. Facts Matter: Irrationality Among the Sane, the Intelligent, the Well-Educated
  2. Are Liberals Just Snobs? (Revised and Augmented)
  3. Conservative Environmentalism
  4. Anthropology Is So Cool
  5. Systematic Evil and our Insensitivity to Evil
  6. The Mysteries of Nature
  7. New Issue of Econ Journal Watch is Out
  8. The UN Sucks
  9. Health Care Reform: Paradise Lost
  10. “Happyism”
  11. State of Florida Wants NASA Land
  12. Around the Web
  13. Three Astonishing Women: A Short Short Story
  14. L’administration Obama bat de l’aile
  15. Four Small Keys to Happiness
  16. Around the Web
  17. The Lonely Libertarian
  18. The Trees, the Bramble, and the Forest
  19. Islamophobia (Part 2 of 2)
  20. Islam and Free Speech
  21. Islamophobia (Part 1 of 2)
  22. The Clash of Civilizations: Where’s Obama?
  23. “The Young British Soldier”
  24. Fwd: Warren Buffet’s Idea for Passing the Budget
  25. Around the Web: Cato Unbound Edition
  26. More on Secession
  27. States and Secession: Lamenting the Failure of the Euro Zone
  28. US Military Spending
  29. Around the Web
  30. Sex: Real Dopes
  31. The Economic Recovery: Jobs Edition
  32. Methodology, Theory and “Real” Sociology
  33. Around the Web
  34. Opiates: Hillbilly Heaven or God’s Own Medicine?
  35. Austrian Economics and Empirical Research
  36. Friedrich Hayek: Champion of Liberty
  37. The Oppression of American Labor
  38. Breakfast Spoiled by “Liberal” Paean
  39. Fact-Checking Politicians
  40. The Blonde Queen of the Lower Andes: A Story
  41. Sex and Economics (And Karl Marx Too!)
  42. Class Warfare, Then and Now
  43. Election Reform: a Modest Proposal

August 2012

  1. Libertarian Internationalism and the Problem of World Government
  2. More on China and Irrational Fears in Conservative Circles
  3. Revamped and Reenergized
  4. One Sure Thing About Globalization – The American Motion Pictures Industry World Hegemony Part 5
  5. Quick Question
  6. Dr D. on Sex, Homosexuality, Language Usage
  7. Libertarians and World Government
  8. Capital Day?
  9. Property Rights in Africa: More Decentralization Please
  10. Practical Sex Advice For Dudes
  11. Property Rights in the Post-Colonial World
  12. Native American Property Rights and European Contact
  13. Property Rights: A Human Universal
  14. Bureaucracy: Yet Another View
  15. What Good Are Mathematical Models for the Science of Economics?
  16. Ron Paul’s Legacy
  17. Life Under Fatwa
  18. One Sure Thing About Globalization – The American Motion Pictures Industry World Hegemony Part 4
  19. Around the Web
  20. One Sure Thing About Globalization – The American Motion Pictures Industry World Hegemony Part 3
  21. From the Comments: the Unemployment Rate
  22. From the Comments: Keynesian Economics and the Stimulus Bill
  23. Glass-Steagall and Deregulation: What Went Wrong?
  24. One Sure Thing About Globalization – The American Motion Pictures Industry World Hegemony Part 2
  25. Fascism and Socialism: What’s the Connection?
  26. Plato, Rousseau and All That Jazz
  27. Department of Oops!
  28. Economic Growth in Europe: the Longer View
  29. One Sure Thing About Globalization – The American Motion Pictures Industry World Hegemony Part 1
  30. Department of Huh?
  31. Obama’s Economic Policies: What’s Wrong, in a Nutshell
  32. North Dakota or Bust!
  33. The Good Old Days
  34. Don’t Vote?
  35. Criticizing the Right
  36. Blast from the Past
  37. A View from Inside China
  38. McCloskey Review = Leftist Rhetoric in Tatters
  39. From the Comments: The Climate Change Cult
  40. Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand: What’s the Connection?
  41. Apologies and Reaffirmations
  42. Tea Party in the People’s Green Republic of Santa Cruz
  43. Blissful Ignorance and the Conservative Worldview
  44. From the Comments: Manufacturing Jobs and American De-Industrialization
  45. From the Comments: Guns and Truth
  46. Staying out of Syria
  47. I Am Bored So Here Is A Story
  48. Around the Web: Lazy Saturday Edition
  49. Around the Web
  50. “Isolationism” Revisited
  51. Anti-Americanism: Lesson One, Europeans
  52. From the Comments: Climate Change Advocates and Religion
  53. “The Fastest Race Ever Run”
  54. Why Blog?
  55. Celebrating Chevron’s Profits
  56. Aging Hippies Aren’t So Hip
  57. What’s Peer Review and Why it Matters
  58. From the Comments: Islamism versus Islam
  59. From the Comments: Islam versus Islamism
  60. The Dutch on Exhibit
  61. The Minimum Wage and Stupid National Public Radio
  62. Liberal Authoritarianism: Independence Day, the Sequel
  63. Around the Web: Consortium Edition
  64. More on Chick-fil-A
  65. An Eventful American Independence Night
  66. Around the Web

July 2012

  1. Chicken Fascism
  2. Atrocities: Municipal, State, and Zionist
  3. Romney and “Defense”
  4. Libertarian Isolationism: A Debate Continued
  5. Unconditional Peace: A Continuing Debate. (Part Four)
  6. Libertarian Isolationism: A Rebuttal
  7. Peace At All Costs: Growing Isolationism Among Libertarians
  8. Guns and Truth
  9. My Thoughts on the Aurora Shooting
  10. Italy and National Debt and Everyone Else
  11. Racial Profiling at its Best
  12. The Curious Case of the Bourgeois Bubble Boy
  13. Elites and Housing Segregation: What Gives?
  14. Around the Web
  15. Rights of “Occupy” Crowd Violated
  16. Sexual Harassment, Sex, Politics, and Herman Cain
  17. Radioactive Debris Floats on to Alaska Beach (?)
  18. “Occupy ….”: An Unintended Experiment in Libertarianism
  19. American Independence Day and The Supreme Court Decision
  20. Around the Web
  21. Archaeology is Cool
  22. Immigration, Libertarianism and the “T” Word
  23. Woman’s Mind; The Mysteries of “Occupy;” the Libertarian Side of the Movement; Syrians
  24. Who Stole Our Trillions?
  25. Occupy Wall Street; Don’t Attack Grandma: The New Class Struggle
  26. Learning to Love America: In Honor of my Mother
  27. The UN, Our Beacon of Humanity
  28. An Ominous Expansion of Eminent Domain
  29. Around the Web: Left and Right Edition
  30. Capitalism and Gay Identity: God’s Two Greatest Enemies
  31. Francophonie: encore de la connerie. (Version revue et corrigée)
  32. The French Presidentials and Cinco de Mayo
  33. The American Parade
  34. Somaliland in the News
  35. Things You Need to Know About Germany, About French Culture
  36. Lost in the Hulaballoo

June 2012

  1. Around the Web: ObamaCare Edition (Part 2)
  2. Around the Web: ObamaCare Edition
  3. ObamaCare and the Long Game
  4. A Real Town Meeting in the People’s Green Republic of Santa Cruz
  5. ObamaCare
  6. August 15, 1971
  7. “European Project Trips China Builder”
  8. Tectonic History and Gondwanan Geopolitics in the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica
  9. Around the Web
  10. Left-Liberal Hypocrisy and Bad Taste
  11. The Corporate State and High Liberalism: A Love Story
  12. Normal Poverty
  13. Around the Web
  14. The Cold in California, in Europe, and in Liberal Hearts (Updated)
  15. Organic Food and Red Herrings
  16. The Case for Peace with Iran
  17. Around the Web, Kinda
  18. France Does not Export Wines, nor Mexico Guacamole, nor Does the US Import Cars, etc. “National Competitiveness” for the Intelligent Ignorant
  19. La choucroute garnie de Californie et les méfaits d’Obama.
  20. Systeme D
  21. Around the Web
  22. The Future of ObamaCare: Massachusetts Edition
  23. The Gulf Spill and the Hidden Vice of Capitalism
  24. Socialism: Sinister, Silly
  25. “Stocks Slammed as Dow Erases 2012 Gains”

May 2012

  1. Vote! Or not.
  2. Santa Cruz Vandals, Drums, and Left-Wing Authoritarianism
  3. Immigration and the Welfare State: Incompatible (With A Comment on the Middle East Too)
  4. Some Mistakes Have Been Made
  5. The Future of NATO
  6. What Would You Do?
  7. Le voisinage. (C’est presque pareil partout!)
  8. The Holographic Universe
  9. Farewell Lecture (Congratulations!)
  10. Les pumas de Bécon-les-Bruyères
  11. Conservative National Public Radio
  12. Lester Maddox, Hero or Bum?
  13. The Best Meal and the Worst Meal Ever
  14. Hermanos*
  15. French Movies, Sex, and the Welfare State
  16. Exploring Irrationality: Clusters
  17. Gay Marriage? No, but …
  18. Sasquatch and Liberal Academe
  19. Journey Into Leftistan
  20. Bad Idea of the Year: Raise the Minimum Wage
  21. Polar Bears Multiply: Global Warming Faulted
  22. The Boy Who Has Everything
  23. The Fat Women and Bill O’Reilly

April 2012

  1. Jacques Delacroix, 9/11, and Ron Paul the Truther
  2. Whining Instead of Sex and the Better Use of Health Insurance: A Testimony
  3. Around the Web
  4. Pushing Back Against the State
  5. National Economic Systems: an Introduction for Intelligent Beginners
  6. Around the Web
  7. French Elections: Redux
  8. California, Cradle of Creativity
  9. A Better Way to San Jose
  10. Chocolate for Thought
  11. Around the Web
  12. Secession, Small States, and Decentralization: A Rejoinder to Dr. Ayittey
  13. Scotland, the Sudan, and Federalism Done Right
  14. Pure Racism and Chinese Dining
  15. African Political Structures: A Debate
  16. From the Comments: A Note on the Upcoming French Elections
  17. Chicago, Vienna and San Francisco
  18. Coyotes: How Government Bureaucrats Think
  19. Let’s Celebrate Loopholes
  20. A Good Society: The Coffee Proof
  21. A Few Good Debates
  22. Ethnography of Liberalism: I
  23. Native American Sovereignty
  24. How ’bout Communism?
  25. Mali: Let It Collapse, Duh! Part 2
  26. Mali: Let It Collapse, Duh!
  27. The Arab-Israeli Mess
  28. Karl Marx Was Right (Pretty Much)
  29. Emotion Trumps Reason in Santa Monica
  30. Protectionism and Job Loss: Part Nine of a Nine Steps Series (And Last, I Think.)
  31. Ron Paul Visits UCLA: the Recap
  32. Ron Paul to Visit UCLA
  33. The Escalators (Part Eight of Eight so Far on Protectionism)
  34. Links From Around the Web
  35. Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope, Bane of Protectionism. (Part Seven of Seven so Far. More Coming.)

March 2012

  1. Two More Days!
  2. National Specialization, the Virtuous Obverse of Protectionism (Part Six of a Series)
  3. Equal self ownership
  4. Some Great Links From Around the Web
  5. From the Comments: A Note on Property Rights
  6. Selgin on Bernanke
  7. Some Musings on China: Why We Need Not Fear Beijing
  8. Luis, I, the Bananas of Quebec, Hans, and Pierre (Protectionism – continued)
  9. A Few Fun Links
  10. A State Called Libya
  11. Free Trade and Protectionism: The Story of Pierre. Part Four of a Series
  12. Free trade, (Protectionism) – Part Three
  13. Protectionism; Free Trade, Step by Step
  14. Some Chinese Links
  15. Shipping Jobs Overseas: The Export of American Manufacturing Jobs and Lousy Education
  16. The Little Greatness of America
  17. Immigrants – A Story Pregnant with Deep Meaning
  18. More Musings on Colonialism
  19. Colonialism: Myths and Realities
  20. Thanks A Lot America!
  21. Gas Prices Are Too Damn High
  22. Catching the Killer Kony: What Trends for Tools Can Tell Us About Political Structures
  23. Life with an Accent*: Twenty-Five Unimportant Complaints From A Happy Immigrant Plus One Confession
  24. Somalia and Anarchy: Links Edition
  25. Apologies
  26. Stupid Fundamentalists; Obstinate Ignorance.
  27. Assorted Links on Mormon Baptisms for the Dead
  28. Contraception and Perversions: Dr D’s Brutal Reminders
  29. This Is What A Dissident Looks Like
  30. Media Idiocy Elsewhere: Some Encouraging Observations
  31. Bizarre Love Triangle: Towards a New Internationalism
  32. Links From Around the Consortium
  33. Baptisms for the Dead: So What?
  34. Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Humanitarian War and the Omnipotent Expert
  35. Republican Presidential Primaries

February 2012

  1. Fear and Loathing in The Wealth of Nations
  2. Links From Around the Consortium
  3. Iraq, War, and the Litmus Test of Rationality: Ron Paul Edition
  4. Lutheran Delusions
  5. Hillary Clinton on Somalia: More of the Same
  6. Yes, Jacques Delacroix, Iran IS Surrounded
  7. Ugly Conservative Sacred Cows
  8. Cannibalism and the Imperial Urge
  9. President’s Day
  10. Fascism Explained Part 2
  11. Race, Racism, and the Law in America
  12. My article in THE AMERICAN
  13. The De-Industrialization of the US: A String of Enlightening Fallacies. Essay on International Economics, in Plain English
  14. From the Comments
  15. Communist Dinosaurs
  16. Greece: What’s Going On?
  17. Democracy: Warts and All
  18. Teacher Sex and President Sentences Terror Suspects to Rape?
  19. Update on America and on the World
  20. More Great News!
  21. Fascism Explained
  22. Adam Smith, Or: The More Things Change…
  23. Foreign Policy and Human Ignorance: The Attack on Non-Intervention
  24. Great News!
  25. Rebellion in Homs
  26. Links From Around the Consortium
  27. Montesquieu Is Back!

January 2012

  1. Talking to the Left: the Sword and the Shield
  2. Some Possible Consequences of a U.S. Government Default
  3. America’s War of 1812
  4. Notes From Libya
  5. Secular Theocracy Part 2
  6. Rainy Day
  7. Ron Paul’s Power Problem
  8. Libertarianism and Republican Virtue
  9. Releasing Income Taxes
  10. Reading John Locke
  11. Laundry Day!
  12. A Libertarian sales-tax party?
  13. What exactly IS socialism anyway?
  14. Wow
  15. Austrian Economics and the Left
  16. Leadership, International Trade, Hormuz and Ron Paul, Minorities and Ron Paul: The Last-Before-Last Republican Follies
  17. Welcome

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