Anthony Bradley is my source for many insightful essays on modern culture.
He has two posts on Matthew Murray who shot all those people at the churches.
He was homeschooled and raised pentacostal, conservative, republican, evangelical. The problem: marriage of church and state. He saw it. It sickened him. He was depressed and [...]
Much of what economists do is counterintuitive.
Tyler Cowen links to Matt Yglesias who took from Andrew Sullivan who got it from Eric dePlace that
“You save more fuel switching from a 15 to 18 mpg car than switching from a 50 to 100 mpg car.” And so you do. A 15 MPG car would require 1,000 [...]
I was watching Disney’s animated Cinderella with my daughters Christmas afternoon. Apart from the problems inherent to any fairy-tale, especially those involving a privileged royal class, I began wondering about the relevance of income inequality in this story. Cinderella lives in a large mansion with her evil stepmother and her two wicked stepsisters. She [...]
I’ve found The Jesus Manifesto, where Jason Barr has a series on Anarchism, Christianity, and the Prophetic Imagination, now in its 14th supplement. He takes on Niebuhr, Sojourners, and the Christian Coalition, identifying them all as elements of Christian dom, rather than Christianity. I’ve left a little note on the difference between law and government [...]
Yes, I’m wearing my Murray Rothbard: Enemy of the State T-shirt today, why do you ask?…
This woman was held by government authorities, shackled, and imprisoned for staying a few days late on a previous vacation to the US from Iceland. She came back recently to go shopping in New York. You can [...]
Well, of course they are. I don’t believe we will ever have a minarchist judicial-based government. I don’t believe we will even end welfare. I don’t think we will get rid of the Fed, and I hope we don’t build a 700 mile fence along the border with Mexico, but that’s not part of my [...]
Jeff and I have been hashing this out lately.
Boettke (my “uncle” in Austrian Economics – studied with Roy Cordato) says:
I share the following opinion with the theorists at MIT: “Empirical economics is fine for exploring things that have already happened.” But for questions of what could happen, or for questions of what might be ideal [...]
Newmark points out that Amazon has an interesting offer: buyers of a new-standard HD DVD player can get 10 new–count ‘em, ten–HD DVDs free with purchase in a post about overcoming path dependence, or how to attract early adopters.
I offer the following in the comments there:
Amazon, interestingly, is NOT giving away free titles for their [...]
According to Campus Squeeze.
Brick, brick, brick, brick…it should be their fight song.
At least he didn’t mention Harrleson…
Barry Day is running for office, a Ron Paul supporter, and well-informed about education.
He has a post that discusses the Durham Nativity School. I worked at a Boarding School Mission, Agape Corner, within a half mile of this place for 6 years. We did not get anywhere near the results these folks do, but we [...]