Ask the typical undergraduate to discuss the ideas advanced in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and you may as well be asking for an overview of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. Yet these nearly forgotten documents fully merit a place among the most important political writings in American history, both in terms of
I knew that the New York Times review , which I’d heard was coming, would be in a class by itself. But I had no idea that I was such a dangerous person that it would run on the editorial page. I told radio talk show hosts all week that if the Times’ review of my book wasn’t a hatchet job, I’d buy them dinner. Needless to say, and as I fully
Joe Lockard, a professor of American literature at Arizona State University, is the latest entrant in the hate-Tom-Woods parade. According to Lockard, I’m just dead wrong from page one. Here is my full response to his sweeping attack
The ideology that informs the thinking of present-day “civil rights” agitation is cluttered with misconceptions. It is not true, for example, that discrimination must lead to poverty. As Thomas Sowell observes, the Chinese have never enjoyed an equal playing field in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, or Vietnam, yet the Chinese
Just before Christmas I received the following from Joe Fullmer , and submit it to readers for their consideration: “I am a lay economist — I have no formal training, but I read much, and annoy my friends and associates. So, my comments aren’t those of a trained professional economist. “This morning, in FEE’s daily In-Brief email, I am informed
Thank goodness for the San Diego City Council, which has taken a stand against convenience and inexpensive groceries. No Wal-Mart Supercenter will be allowed to open in San Diego. “I have a vision for San Diego and that vision is about walkable, livable communities, not big, mega-structures that inhibit people’s lives,” said councilman Tony Young.
I rather like this article from The Atlantic , arguing that the typical arguments against chain stores are misplaced. Among other things, it cites a planning consultant who finds that the aesthetes all hate Pottery Barn because it’s a chain and therefore dehumanizing, but that if you show them pictures of a Pottery Barn with a different name on it
Apropos Stephen Carson comes another discussion about entrepreneurs and business models: The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens. You know the real reason Excite went out of business? We couldn’t figure out how to make money from 97% of our traffic. We couldn’t figure out how to make money from the long tail – from those queries
Here is my most recent attempt to respond to some critics of my history primer, in the same venue in which 4 of the attacks were printed.
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