Mark Steyn on Proper Respect for Multicultural Values
I quote the following from Mark Steyn’s column in today’s (March 26, 2006) Orange County Register (his column dealt with the threatened death penalty for a Moslem convert to Christianity):
The Environmentalists Are Trying to Frighten the Natives
In a manner reminiscent of witch doctors urging primitive people to sacrifice their sheep and goats in order to mollify the wrath of the gods, today’s environmentalists and their shills in the media and academe repeatedly urge the people of the United States and the rest of the modern world to sacrifice their use of energy and their standard of living in order to avoid the wrath of the Earth and its atmosphere.
Doubt the Action Axiom? Try to Disprove It
At the core of praxeology lies the incontrovertible proposition that humans act. Here, G. Stolyarov defends a validation of the action axiom.
The Trouble With Socialist Anarchism
The movie V for Vendetta has provoked public discussion of the meaning of anarchism. Murray Rothbard was an advocate of the stateless society, but he was never accepted by the anarchist movement and is still considered more a “capitalist lackey” than anarchist thinker. Indeed, anarcho-capitalism has always been considered an oxymoron by the self-proclaimed “true” anarchists.
Soda and the Sin Tax
Robert Murphy is old enough to remember when libertarians and conservatives would object to government interference with tobacco and alcohol by asking, “What next? Will the government start taxing fatty foods and put warning labels on fettuccine alfredo?”
Our Escape From Europe
Margit von Mises’s memoires of her life with her husband Lu remain the most inspired account of his life in print. Here is an excerpt.
George Koether (1907-2006)
We are very sad to report that George Koether, born in 1907, has died at the age of 98. He was a journalist, speechwriter, businessman, lecturer, economist, and a friend to Ludwig and Margit von Mises, a longtime ambassador for Misesian economics.
The Foundations of Liberal Policy
Richard Salsman’s Confused Review of Greenspan
Apparently it was published over a month ago, but I only now discovered that big “O” Objectivist (ARI-affiliated) economist Richard Salsman published a review of Alan Greenspan on Capitalism Magazine’s web site. In some ways his review is pretty good, but in other ways it is very confused.
North America’s First Experience with Paper Money: Card Money in New France
In a footnote, rothbard explains a curious form of paper money issued in 17th century Quebec, which became known as “card money.” Martin Masse elaborates.
