Sunday, March 27, 2011

Mere Gold is Not Enough: Hayek's "Denationalisation"

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F. A. Hayek's Denationalisation of Money (1978) made a case for an open market in money, without legal tender laws, and without a gover...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Sociology of Freedom

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Freedom (or the lack of it) does not come to each of us evenly and all at once .  This is explained in Harry Browne's classic, How I Fou...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Nerd Nation

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The jocks have been shoved aside.  While the Super Bowl has not withered from disinterest,  the fact remains that a significant (if unmeasur...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Sanction of the Victim

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"The sanction of the victim" is one of the many philosophical ideas that are dramatized in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged .  We ...

Confronting Post-Modernism and Conservatism

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Having just spent five years at college and university (2005-2010), I had too many professors and classroom colleagues to whom I was expecte...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Misconduct in Science and Research

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Recent news about procedural misconduct by scientists is easy to find.   However, searches of JSTOR uncovered zero articles about misconduct...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

What is Literacy?

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We can feel good about the fact that literacy in the United States is 99% -- until we realize that this puts the USA tied for 21st with 24 o...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Another Example of Unlimited Constitutional Government

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Regardless of how stringent the constitution, the government always can be expanded.  Does the legislature have a right to establish its own...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Cure for a Failing Empire

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If you were a druid from 180 AD and had Merlin's insight, what could you tell the emperor Marcus Aurelius about the coming collapse of t...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Counterfeiting and the Tragedy of the Commons

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It does not take much research to read far too much about the glut of counterfeit numismatic materials manufactured in China and sold on eBa...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

To Make Money

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In "Francisco's Money Speech" from Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand claimed that the phrase "to make money" was invented in...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Money as Speech and Peacemaking

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Athens c. 450 BCE “Francisco’s Money Speech” is a monologue from Atlas Shrugged .  If you do not know the soliloquy you can find it onli...