Since, I opened this blog on January 2, 2011, these articles
have tallied the most readers.
(3600 pageviews. January 6, 2012)
At the end of the 1939 movie version of The Wizard of Oz, Glinda the Good Witch
says that Dorothy could have gone home any time, but she had to learn that for
herself. Scarecrow asks Dorothy what she learned. … Clearly, what begins as a cliché ends
as a contraction.
(2721 pageviews. August 13, 2013)
This grew out of a discussion on Galt’s Gulch Online. Ayn Rand suggested that as admirable as
the Constitution is, not having been based on a consistent philosophy, it
contained the seeds of its own destruction.
(1800 pageviews. May 27, 2014)
With help from my anarcho-capitalist comrades here in town, we
brought a screening of this movie and its author here for a weekend.
With a cameo by Ron Paul, Alongside Night is the story of the
final economic collapse of the United States. We see it through the eyes of
16-year-old Elliot Vreeland. Elliott searches for his father, a Nobel
laureate economist who was targeted for arrest because he consulted with the
Europeans to create a gold-based currency that effectively destroyed all
confidence in the U.S. dollar.
(689 pageviews.
July 3, 2013)
Bob Swanson was 29 when he provided the money for Prof. Herbert
Boyer to start Genentech. Like all
overnight successes, the real story is more complicated, with deep roots. Bright, accomplished, and motivated,
Swanson had obvious potential – and a string of failures to show for it.
(603 pageviews. September 1, 2013)
Dr. William Herbert Sheldon, Jr., (1898 – 1977) came from a
privileged family. The philosopher William James was his godfather. Sheldon
created the 70-point grading scale that is the standard in modern American
numismatics. He also pioneered the
study of Early American Copper, the Large Cents and Half Cents struck until
1857. He also stole coins from the American Numismatic Society; and he defrauded
other collectors.
(555 pageviews.
December 28, 2011)
In these days of anti-capitalist protest, it is important to
know that keeping track of debts led to the inventions of counting and writing,
and eventually gave voice to art.
(359 pageviews. September 13, 2014)
What you tax you get less of; and what you subsidize you get
more of. The brightest people in
the world are making video games; and no one is on the Moon. It did not take a genius to figure this
out: it is a universal law of human action
(342 pageviews. November 25, 2011)
In Economics 101, the Supply curve and the Demand curve are
displayed. The point where
they intersect is called “equilibrium” where the most efficient allocation of
resources is claimed to occur.
This ignores the fact that the other choices do not disappear. People
are still demanding and supplying all along both curves.
(337 pageviews. August 10, 2013)
Scripophily is the study of stock certificates, bonds, and
related fiduciary instruments. It is a subset of numismatics, the art and
science that studies the forms and uses of money. Like coins, banknotes, checks
(drafts), and tokens, stock certificates reveal the daily life and work of the
times. And like other numismatic items, they can be highly artistic.
(323 pageviews.
May 20, 2014)
In point of fact, such a claim would be unnecessary, as for
instance, "Republicans for Bush" or "Republicans for
Palin." Logic demands that we
accept Voldemort as a Democrat and allow that some Republicans favor his reign.
POPULAR THIS WEEK
In addition to those above, these were among the other posts
that recently gained some attention.
(88 pageviews. December 25, 2016)
The defining attribute of fans of the Atlas Shrugged movies is that they are people who want to set
themselves apart in a separate, isolated and hidden community of like-minded
people. Many dream of a physical locale. Most enjoy online communities. In
those discussions, the occasional reports of attempts at a “Galt’s Gulch” receive
close attention. Although the plot element of “Galt’s Gulch” served a poetic
purpose, it was not a call to action.
(14 pageviews. September 26, 2016)
A short snorter is paper money, signed by people who share a
common experience. During World War II, with 16 million men and women in the
American armed forces, the custom spread rapidly. After the war, it faded just
as quickly.
(7 pageviews. January 23, 2013)
Products become icons because of the insightful and
compelling work of advertising.
Art & Copy
(2009) is a film by Doug Pray.
“Everything that was done to launch that product is now done differently
because of that product. ... Every computer company on the planet does their
ads on a Mac.” – Lee Clow, creator of the Macintosh “1984” ad.
(5 pageviews. February 5, 2014.)
"Some of the best things in life are free / If you can
steal them from the bourgeosie!" When Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn came
to Eastern Michigan University to speak to the New Students for a Democratic
Society in 2010, I was there. Bill did not recognize me even though I was at
the Flint War Council, December 27-31, 1969.
(4 pageviews. May 31, 2105)
Imagine a successful protest in Berlin 1943 against the
Holocaust. Between February 27 and
March 6, about 200 German women stood outside a detainment center, demanding
the release of their Jewish husbands. …
"Researchers used to say that no government could survive if just 5
percent of the population rose up against it," Chenoweth says. "Our
data shows the number may be lower than that. No single campaign in that period
[1900-2000] failed after they'd achieved the active and sustained participation
of just 3.5 percent of the population." She adds, "But get this:
every single campaign that exceeded that 3.5 percent point was a nonviolent
one. The nonviolent campaigns were on average four times larger than the
average violent campaigns."
JUST TO NOTE
I found a mirror site in Sweden: http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.se/ I did not set it up; someone else
unknown to me did that. I also
found that many readers come here via a Russian site, yandex.ru, which I have
never visited because my personal protection is not strong enough for me to go
gallivanting.
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