Media and Culture

It seems there is a terrible price to be paid for genius.

Posner is — to the best of my knowledge — a magnanimous person with a genuine concern for the lives of millions of Americans, but his book, if heeded, will only exacerbate current conditions.

To draw insights from all sources is to create the kind of diversity that makes for a vibrant and productive intellectual paradigm and an endlessly fascinating website erected in the defense of liberty.

There are no natural laws governing the behavior of complex systems.

"To all collectivists, including Dickens, the idea that more wealth could be created never manages to invade their imaginations."

The Austrian, broad approach to the study of social reality is something which legal theorists could very much benefit from.

"Milton's argument that the people need free expression of thought rests not upon their inherent virtue, but upon the very fact that none of them are virtuous enough to properly decide the right books for all."

Now, under the influence of the antidiscrimination paradigm and "human rights" law, men are being told that their human dignity requires the enslavement of a woman who does not wish to provide them with a holiday tour.

When we disapprove of government support, we are supposed to disapprove of the thing itself whose support is discussed.