An Archive of sketches developing ideas.
Paul Krugman writes: Soros, Obama, And Me What do we have in common? We’re all small business owners, according to Mitch McConnell. Obama and I make our business income off
“The Cult Of Offensive Moderation” Note: I am in the process of creating a plugin for political moderation of debates, without censorship. There is far too much censorship on debate
(Posted in the comments section of the NYT) In response to the comments section of one of Paul Krugman’s articles: British Decline I felt that all the people that were
From The Liberty Defense League, an exceptionally intelligent posting on the weaknesses of anarchism. Some libertarian friends call for anarchy to prevail. While such a state of affairs may be
While the devil is in the details, and I have less than zero confidence in this president, he proposed a structural change in the way we ‘purchase’ infrastructure projects, that
Software That Produces Ads? September 4th, 2010 The NYT “BETC Euro RSCG, part of the Euro RSCG Worldwide division of Havas, has developed software that can produce elementary advertisements. The
From The Left’s Unlikely Alliance with Islam By Robert Eugene Simmons Jr. Most fair-minded Americans have no problem with people who wish to practice their religion. In addition, most fair-minded
A Little History For Context The term ‘Freedom’, and its near relation ‘Liberty’, have a long heritage. The babylonian words “ama-gi”, meaning “Return To The Mother”, written in cuneiform,
Every day I read around twenty academic papers, a book, and something on the order of 300 blog postings on economics and politics, and a little philosophy. I have my
I lost the source of this quote, but thought it captured the sentiment correctly: The government has been playing “extend-and-pretend” based entirely on the idea that pent up demand in
“Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is A Better Way For Africa.” We know: Aid is bad. It creates corruption. It harms the economy. It makes nice happy
I try to keep track of the ‘Grand Theories’. And I came across this one last week. I can’t find the book anywhere except online. I read what I could.
Whenever something is scarce, some concept of property (the exclusive use of a resource) is necessary for the development of incentives, coordination, and production — even if the difference between
In William Easterly’s post “Why can’t leading conservative magazine understand freedom?” he refers to a National Review article “China Teaches US Lessons About Economic Freedom“. I replied in the comments:
In response to The Tea Party is a Marxist movement on Half Sigma, I created this diagram. The BiPolarity Of Social Class, And The Status Competition Between Them. I”ve posted
From Arnold Kling, By way of the WSJ, By Peter Boettke: Mr. Hayek rightly warned of the dangers of central planning, Mr. Boettke says, but “he didn’t give a prescription
Paul writes: Predictions I Wish Had Been Wrong Looking for some other stuff, I found this post from October 2008 in which I predicted a level of right-wing craziness about
From Education And Its Discontents About three years ago, a scientific study was undertaken to examine some of the differences between the conservative and the liberal mind. One of the
Egalitarianism is an attempt to either: Egalitarianism is the passive and low-cost alternative to producing innovation, excellence and performing actions in real time.
Would I Please Respond? I get a lot of comments along the lines of “Would you please respond to the criticism of your work in ______?” Um, no. Do you