The Costs of Compulsory Education
Education will only be reformed once parents and entrepreneurs are free to create real alternatives to broken systems.
On Academic Freedom and External Funding
This has been in my “drafts” file for a while, and I decided to go ahead and post it now that some of the initial fury has died down and since I read this post by Steve Horwitz on how, apparently, some organizations that have received funding from AT&T are explicitly endorsing AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile.
The Free-Market Lesson of the Web
Despite its great complexity and rapid development over the last 10 years, the web works largely without state intervention of any sort.
Unemployment and Economic Recovery
Without government, unemployment could be relatively easily alleviated.
“Freedom” does not mean actual freedom
The NYT has unearthed a document that seems to date back to 2008 of which a new edition is in the works, and this new edition permits the FBI to do damn thing it wants to do, such as rummage through your trash, monitor communications, break into databases, and be the all-round agency of total domestic surveillance.
The Evil of Patenting Food and Seeds
Is the Government Really Creating a Tool of Liberation?
A very strange story in the NYT: U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.
The Fed’s “Brave New World” of Monetary Policy
One wonders if this Fed official ever read Aldous Huxley’s chilling book.
Mises, Not Just for Vacations but It’s a Start
WSJ interview with Michele Bachmann of Minnesota:
“I love von Mises… When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises.”
The Beauty of Trade at the Grand Bazaar
Photo by Doug French, 2011
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has been a beehive of mutually beneficial exchanges for 550 years. Americans may think of Rodeo Drive or Madison Avenue when they think shopping, but while everyone pays the sticker price in America, price tags are rare at the Grand Bazaar.
