Monday, April 25, 2011

The CSI Effect

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Jurors with less education demand scientific evidence.  Educated jurors trust the prosecutor. History can be funny.  Typically, progress c...

Karl Marx and the Dustbin of History

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Like the death of Mark Twain, the imminent passing of capitalism has been predicted (or reported) for 150 years.   Plotting the past and ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Atlas Shrugged: Opening Show

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

When Did "the Great Depression" Begin?

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No mythology faces as many problems as the folktale of The Great Depression. The Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, pointed out in Human ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Anti-Trust

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The evils of anti-trust are well-known.   Anti-trust laws assume that there is a fixed inventory of extant goods and services, that all th...

Contemporary Reports: Panic or Puffery?

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It is possible that the “Panic of 1857” is another anti-capitalist delusion?   Historians are trained in school to give precedence to first...
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...