From The New York Times of October 31, 2006 : Dozens of people appeared before the city’s Board of Health yesterday, offering a largely favorable response to proposed restaurant regulations that would ban all but a minute amount of artificial trans fats in food preparation, and require some restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus and
Saving is the use of revenue or income by a business or individual for purposes other than expenditure on consumers’ goods (or consumers’ services). It is revenue or income that is not consumed. Because what is saved is not spent by the saver for consumption, a popular fallacy has grown up that saving is synonymous with hoarding— i.e., with the
At the most fundamental level, environmentalism and the Green movement that represents it are hostile to business. The ethics of environmentalism and the Greens is one of human deprivation and individual self-sacrifice. Business in contrast rests on a foundation of the pursuit of happiness and the profit motive. The one represents a joyless
In the last 500 million years, there have been two ice ages at the same time that vastly higher carbon dioxide levels prevailed in the earth’s atmosphere—up to 16 times the present level. This remarkable finding, along with others, was reported in yesterday’s (November 7, 2006) New York Times . For details, see the article by William Broad, “In
Like clockwork, The Onion has a poignant article that summarizes the reality of the situation: “politicians were the big winners in Tuesday’s midterm election.” And in the words of a fake officeholder, “It’s a good night to be a politician.” Perhaps H.L. Mencken said it best however, “every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen
It is very common for people to talk nowadays about environmental good and evil, but with virtually no explicit statement of the standards by which something is to be judged environmentally good or evil. People are unaware that a standard is always present and that there is more than one such standard. There are in fact two diametrically opposed
I had no idea that my recent article “Standards of Environmental Good and Evil: Why Environmentalism Is Misanthropic” would be so successful that it would persuade even Tokyo Tom. Yet it apparently has. See his blog comment on my article , where, in the midst of what seems to be considerable agitation, he concedes my essential points. He writes:
I’ve never had much use for Penn and Teller, a pair of comedians that I’ve seen from time to time on television and then have quickly turned off. But the other day, a reader of my blog, Mr. Robert Groot, a Canadian Ph.D. student, was kind enough to send me a link to their internet show on recycling. I have to say that this show has made me a fan
The following is from The New York Times of November 7, 2006 : Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery. Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely
On Sunday, December 10, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile died, at the age of 91. General Pinochet deserves to be remembered for having rescued his country from becoming the second Soviet satellite in the Western hemisphere, after Castro’s Cuba, and, like the Soviet Union, and Cuba under Castro, a totalitarian dictatorship. T he General is
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.