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Price Theory a la Rupert Murdoch 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Rupert Murdoch was buying up online properties in the mid 1990s, trying to do with the newly commercial Internet what he had done with FOX television during the previous ten years or so. One of his ne...
Too little, but not too late: Eric Holder begins to roll back the drug war 13 Aug 2013 | 08:18 am
More than forty years after the U. S. government launched the modern drug war, its highest-ranking prosecutor has tacitly admitted that it is a legal and moral failure: In a major shift in criminal j...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the U.S. Terror State 6 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
Being a U.S. war criminal means never having to say sorry. Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the Enola Gay and destroyed Hiroshima, lived to the impressive age of 92 without publicly expressing guilt for...
Hedy Lamarr Bet on the Wrong Horse 1 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
“Hedy stands naked in a field. She looks off-camera in dismay as her horse gallops away with the clothes she had draped over its back to take a dip in a woodland pond.” That’s the opening line of my ...
Stamping Out Dissent 23 Jul 2013 | 03:46 am
My fixation on female national personifications continues: Last week I blogged about Lady Liberty. Today, the Freeman features my article on the Goddess of Liberty statue from China’s 1989 Tiananmen...
Was the Statue of Liberty a gift from the people of France? 16 Jul 2013 | 04:59 pm
While visiting France recently, I posted to my blog about seeing Lady Liberty in Paris. I’m afraid I offhandedly gave a bit of false history in that post: on the subject of the Statue of Liberty I wro...
The Case for Independence 4 Jul 2013 | 03:42 am
On July 4th some Americans celebrate the rejection of empire. Politicians more likely see it as the US government’s birthday. Libertarians must decide which legacy the day truly commemorates, and cele...
Does capitalism make us dumb? 3 Jun 2013 | 05:06 pm
The anti-capitalists contend that the market fosters whatever has the broadest appeal, even when the lowest common denominator indulges our basest appetites. Defenders of freedom and markets tend to f...
Sustainable Living, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Urban Farms 14 May 2013 | 03:31 am
In Oakland, California, not far from where I live, urban homesteading – growing food on private land for small-scale trade and consumption – has become so common the city government was forced to back...
dirty work 4 May 2013 | 11:38 pm
I first heard of Steven Johnson’s 2006 book The Ghost Map from a George Will piece called “Survival of the Sudsiest.” The book’s full title is The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epid...
