Daniel Kahneman (the psychologist who won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2002) and Jonathan Renshon try to explain why those who are more willing to favor military action and coercive force succeed in tipping the scales in international affairs: As the hawks and doves thrust and parry, one hopes that
Why does it always have to be California? New York? Massachusetts? Why not New Hampshire ? New Hampshire: The Land of “Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils.” The home of Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, Mary Baker Eddy, Franklin Pierce, Robert Frost, Maxfield Parrish, Alan B. Shepard Jr, J.D. Salinger, Ken Burns, and Dean Kamen. Home
On behalf of all the thousands of consumers of publicly owned, government regulated, monopolistic utility companies from Texas to Oklahoma and Missouri to Maine who lost power over the last week during the ice storm and found their service lacking, I would like to open up the bidding process to competitive companies that will fill the needs of
A month after declaring travel on the stretch of New York State Thruway that crosses its land an “ongoing act of trespass,” the Seneca Indian Nation said Thursday it will charge the state a $1 toll for each vehicle traveling the highway. The action is the latest in a series by Seneca leaders angry at Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plans to collect an
In all the discussions across the internet about Ron Paul and his views it seems there still remains a lot of confusion. Here is just one example: “He’s a straight shooter, yes, but his economic ideas are nigh-on retarded...He opposes free trade deals and he wants to get rid of the Fed. So he clearly does not believe in sound money, and his
Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron, writes in the Guardian of a borderless state of freedom with regard to film-makers that perhaps presages a wider movement in many other markets: “My hope for the future is for people to start cutting loose from those geographic roots, to begin moving towards a state of freedom, of rootlessness. I feel this
The insightful Global Economic Analysis blog has a concise write-up on “Helicopter Ben” and the Twelve Bankers and the reality of our current Federal Reserve system. Did you ever think that a counterfeiting money could be good for the economy and that the counterfeiter could be considered an economic genius or even a national
Which political parties have led the United States into its deadliest wars? See 231 years of history in 90 seconds on a map of the world (flash). Maps of War also provides a quick look at: Imperial History of the Middle East History of Religion Signs of
John H. Fund from The Wall Street Journal on the “good thing” that is the freedom to choose: Scores of books have been written on the role of communists and socialists in the U.S., dour chronicles of welcome failure. But very few writers have devoted much attention to the role of libertarians, a more appealing and optimistic group of thinkers,
Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan write in The Washington Post: The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State. Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world,
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.