Commodify My Grass, and Everything Else
Thank goodness that no local government has decided that lawn care is a public good.
Free Markets
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Some Further Notes on Libertarian Science Fiction
This is the story of four writers, none of whom was a libertarian, but each of whom made a significant contribution to the libertarian tradition.
Online Dating Reaches the Elite
The division of labor works in dating as it does with anything else. The academically inclined should focus their energies and time on their studies. That's what they enjoy and what they're good at. And now these young entrepreneurs have created a way to efficiently match potentially compatible people.
America’s First Television Czar
Have you ever wondered why the "tiny ship" famously tossed in the opening credits of Gilligan's Island was named the SS Minnow?
Ideas Can Overthrow Regimes
These tell-tale signs of a dictatorship all reinforce Mises's observation: the regime can only last if it maintains the illusion that it is beneficial to the masses. Mere physical strength is not sufficient, because it is ultimately ideas that determine which way the soldiers and police point their guns.
What Is Prejudice?
What is described as prejudice is often nothing more than the sum total of a person’s actual experience and learning, formed on the basis of observation of reality.
More for Me Does Not Mean Better for Us
Union defenders have justified their position based on little more than the assertion that some union benefited them or some member of their family.
The Socialism of Agri-Patents
ome bozo tried to patent a species in 1889, but the patent commissioner rejected it as "unreasonable and impossible." Exactly. But this changed in stages, and only fairly recently. The current regime dates from the late 1980s. These patents handed the Left their best arguments.
Capitalism and Socialism
How many people do you know who use variations on “capitalism” to describe pretty much anything they don’t like? It’s a vice that cuts several ways.
The Anarchism of Peter Kropotkin
Kropotkin is one of the half-dozen cases of anarchocommunists that are worth a second look.
