Over at Liberal Conspiracy, I was arguing on a thread concerning the arrest of Mona Eltahawy, nabbed in the process of defacing a poster in the New York subway. The poster was, according to Lib Con burghermeister Sunny Hundal, racist, and much of the comment thread was devoted to disputing whether it was or...
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Free speech, civil disobedience and why we should abolish the libel laws
Banning clamping on private land is exactly backwards
I was struck, when the smoking ban came in, that the effect on me was the opposite of that intended. I spend far more time on pavements than I do in pubs and trapping the smoke inside a pub protected me from it most of the time. Now it happens on pavements I am...
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Hayek: Prices, self-interest, altruism and more
Richard Carey has had a prolific week on Libertarian Home and his thoughts on Hayek have proved most popular. His review of the Master’s of Money Hayek profile has drawn some few hundred new faces to Libertarian Home. This is great, because from here these strangers might become aware of the Libertarian meetup at...
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Sennholz on the Great Depression
There’s not too much footage of economist Hans Sennholz, as far as I’ve discovered, which is a shame, as he’s a fine lecturer, speaking with a steely conviction, and not a little rhetorical swagger. Here he discusses the Great Depression at the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in 1988, introducing the subject by stressing...
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Hayek – much more than money – Philip Booth
Has Lady Gaga finally gone too far?
I guess it is the Daily Mail, so the result is not too surprising, but who in their right mind considers Lady Gaga as a role model?
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Quote of the day
First, change of attitude. To contribute in a personally more healthy way again. I won’t argue about technical details and specifications any more. That just turns me into a grumpy person (belated apologies). I doubt that promoting products by advertising their underlying technologies is the best way for establishing and growing a market anyway....
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FT concedes that the welfare state is a ponzi scheme
Last night the FT, a mainstream newspaper (and a client of mine as it happens), conceded that the welfare state is a Ponzi scheme. Defending the application of this illegal category of schemes to the welfare system, a theory was presented that only one future generation (the last) suffers out of this arrangement because...
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Why exit is an option for Germany – Martin Wolf
Taking Hayek in vain
Well, my hopes weren’t high. I made it to the 16th minute of the BBC’s documentary on Friedrich Hayek, before having to switch it off. I challenge anyone to do better than that. What we are dealing with is a documentary formula, into which Hayek’s life and work has been stuffed. The particular formula...
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