Most of us are familiar with the feud between Rothbard and Rand, and of other aspects of Rand’s personal life that make great fodder for jokes. There are also plenty of self-described Objectivists who advance (what Rothbardians consider to be) silly arguments on the necessity of government. But after discussing these issues with two Objectivists (on separate occasions), I have found that younger followers of Rand are actually quite similar in what they envision as an ideal legal system.

Apparently, the anonymous comment in my blog is true: President Harter has removed the “non-disciplinary” letter from Prof. Hoppe’s file. Las Vegas Review columnist K.C. Howard wrote about it in Controversy generates online war of words and REMARKS ABOUT GAYS: Professor rejects gestures. Prof.

This is an anonymous post on Heinrich’s blog. It seems authentic but I am not sure, since to my knowledge it has appeared only there, which is odd. FWIW:

Though, the economist itself is clearly not in favour of the author’s conclusions, this tells of a very Austrian-sounding critique of pseudo-mathematical business school methodologies:

“About a decade ago, the government realized it could bring income to Mexico’s poor and remote backcountry and moved aggressively to encourage foreign hunting. The federal Environment Ministry set up a program to help ranchers lease land to hunting outfitters and issue hunting permits, and it assigned enforcement officers to regulate the hunters.

Today’s (Friday’s) Wall Street Journal editorializes about the famous Hockey Stick graph of the world’s temperature chart that would seem alone to have motivated the Kyoto Protocols. The chart has been exposed as a fraud.

President Bush’s prescription drug benefit deserves to be killed. Its estimated cost is now put at well over $700 billion for the next ten years, nearly double the original estimate given by the President when his program was enacted into law just fifteen months ago.

From David Perazzoni: