Ideas matter. More than we know. Why haven't we won? Because we are not doing enough and our ranks are not big enough. We need to do what we are doing on ever-grander scales. We need to make ever-better arguments on behalf of liberty. And we need to have patience, just like the prohibitionists and socialists had patience to see their agenda to the end.
Scrooge speaks: To hell with writers. They’re all the same.
Some of the responses to my post on General Pinochet have reminded me that along with the f
Public goods are a cover for coercion, and public high school football is a private good funded by someone else's tax bill. Don't believe otherwise.
One argument against intellectual property is that property rights should be recognized only in scarce (rivalrous) resources.
Indeed, global capitalism makes bureaus such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission even more unnecessary.
In a recent email, Walter Block wrote, responding some pessimistic comments I had about our libertarian movement:
In “Dilemmas of an Economic Theorist” (Econometrica, July 2006) A
A feature of conservative thought that I’ve never entirely understood is its persistent anti-technology theme.
