Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinist or Libertarian Prophet?
[This essay is excerpted from the original published by the Libertarian Alliance.]
Nobel Committee in Search of Economists
The Killing and Reviving of the American Dream
Pure Gold Tattoo
Reuters reports that an entrepreneur in Dubai is now offering 24-carat gold tattoos. For $50 you can get one of the more simple designs but more elaborate ones go for $5,500. The gold body art reportedly lasts for about a week.
Gold is becoming wildly popular and people are finding ever more creative and interesting uses for the malleable yellow metal. Who knows, perhaps one day someone will come up with a really crazy use for gold, like as money or something.
Google Amazes
If any institution can make wind power work, and make it economically viable, it is Google. Announcement of its plans here. “When built out, the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone will stretch 350 miles off the coast from New Jersey to Virginia and will be able to connect 6,000MW of offshore wind turbines. That’s equivalent to 60% of the wind energy that was installed in the entire country last year and enough to serve approximately 1.9 million households.”
Retake “Liberalism”
Lew Rockwell wrote:
All Laws Have Teeth
The Reversal of the Trend toward Freedom
[Excerpted from chapter 16 of Theory and History (1957).]