Pound for Pound
There’s a sense these days that anyone would favor a pie over a cake, and I think I know why. Pies don’t tempt household cooks to scrimp on ingredients. That’s why pies generally taste better.
What Men Want
You know why so many men walk around with sloppy hair? We hate haircuts. You have to drive there to get one, which represents decline, because if you know about Figaro from Rossini’s “Barber of Seville,” the barber came to your home (but then he also pulled out your teeth and passed on furtive notes arranging encounters of various sort, etc.).
The War on the Young
We live in an age rife with oppression. No group of Americans is better aware of this than the nation’s youth. This may be the first generation in US history not to surpass their parents’ living standards.
Dangerous Lessons of 1937
The 1937–1938 dip was not the product of tight fiscal and monetary policy, but of excessive government regulation and loose monetary policy. We must clear away the misconception that this recession was caused by spending cuts.
The Race Against Government
Isn’t there a way we could tap into people’s philanthropic side without doing something intrinsically useless, like having a bunch of fourth graders walk around the school parking lot eight times?
It’s the Language of Action, Not a Trick
People say that buy-one-get-one-half-off deals are a trick. In fact, it is in the best interest of the customers to be offered a deal that is convenient for mental calculation.
By the Way, Free Markets Are Free
A free economy is one that is — how to say this? — free. It is free of cronyism, favoritism, handout-ism, protectionism, or anything else that amounts to using the state as a means of living at the expense of others.
Faculty Spotlight Interview: Walter Block
Walter Block is a professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans. He earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of Defending the Undefendable and Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors, and a dozen other books.
Copyright and Racism
The upcoming documentary, Copyright Criminals, shows how copyright has outrageously criminalized the use of sampling, which has been disproportionately popular in hip hop music. In this, it calls to mind the racially disproportionate impact of drug laws on minorities…
Copyright Criminals – Trailer from IndiePix on Vimeo.
Words and Politics
Whenever political correctness fades from the headlines, another example pops up. The latest installment comes from Washington State Senate President pro tem Rosa Franklin. She has proposed replacing 54 references to “at risk” or “disadvantaged” children in state law with the term “at hope,” so negative labels won’t undermine their ability to succeed.
