Pennsylvania’s Anarchist Experiment: 1681–1690
In the vast stretches of America, William Penn envisaged a truly Quaker colony, “a Holy experiment…that an example may be set up to the nations.”
Japan postal reform will create world’s largest bank
Japan’s lower house of Parliament approved legislation to create the world’s largest bank by privatizing the state-run postal savings and insurance system by 2017 (The Japanese Post Office offers savings accounts in addition to mail service).
If it can happen in Japan, why not here?
Public Land, Public Schools, Public Philosophers, and Public Policy
What’s in the JLS 19.2? Some of the most provocative and challenging scholarly articles you will find anywhere. Editor Roderick T. Long provides a roundup of the latest issue arriving for subscribers.
War, Empire, Conscription: 3 Films For Our Time
I’ve added three films to Films on Liberty and the State: The Americanization of Emily, The Man Who Would Be King and Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War dealing with war, empire and conscription respectively. Though spanning 40 years they are, I am afraid, all films for our time.
It’s Never Enough
The Group of Eight finance ministers will meet this week in Perthshire, Scotland, writes Joseph Potts, to address various weighty financial decisions that their governments have expropriated from the more-capable hands of their citizens.
Producer, Entrepreneur, and the Right to Property
[This paper was presented at the symposium on the Origins and Development of Property Rights, Institute of Humane Studies, University of San Francisco, January 1973. It was published in Reason Papers.]
free-market money cranks
I recently stumbled on an old article in The Village Voice called ‘The Goldbug Variations’ by Julian Dibbell .
Written in early 2002, it is a review of sorts, both of the book Cra$hmaker and of the sound-money movement in general.
Good thought. Let’s put together a committee to study this further.
Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change (NYT)
The Pentagon’s most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.
The Union Hunt for More Victims
The New York Times has proved once again that it is a reliable font of economic ignorance.
This time, it’s through an op-ed piece titled “A More Perfect Union,” by a lady named Ruth Milkman, whose credentials in economics are that she is a “sociologist” and “director of U.C.L.A.’s Institute of Industrial Relations and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.”
The Conundrum Question
This Reuters piece quoting me and the Mises Institute seems to have really made the rounds.
