If we know what the Old Right was against, what were they for? In general terms, they were for a restoration of the liberty of the old republic, of a government strictly limited to the defense of the rights of private property.

[From chapter 8 of The Rise and Fall of Society by Frank Chodorov.]
 

“The patent system: End it, don’t mend it“–”From AIDS to Android phones, research shows that intellectual property rights are detrimental to the social good.” Superb, concise piece in The Christian Science Monitor, by David K. Levine and Michele Boldrin, authors of Against Intellectual Monopoly.

This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations. Previously in this series: Safeway and Consumer Sovereignty in Oakland, CA.

Here is a piece I wrote back in 2005. I hope you enjoy it.

This week is likely the sweet spot of the holiday party season for most working folks. Thankfully, there are a few employers who still open up the bar and turn those in their employ loose with some free alcohol to celebrate the holiday season.

From my friend Jeff Scott, a link toGretchen Morgenseon’s column in the New York Times Why Treasury Needs a Plan B for Mortgages :

Of course, cries of moral hazard will erupt if borrowers get large cuts in their principal balances. Rightly so. Why should those who took on too much debt to buy too much house get rescued when those who were prudent go unrewarded?

Friends of freedom are frequently accused of being “extremists” in not being willing to “compromise” with a “reasonable” amount of government regulation, welfare redistribution, and social intervention.

But who really is the extremist, the advocate of liberty who respects diversity and differences among men and their beliefs and actions, or the political interventionist who wishes to impose his vision of the “good society” on all through the use of government coercion?