Here are inconvenient truths that counter the fallacies of Al Gore’s documentary film - An Inconvenient Truth. Man is not causing catastrophic global warming. Carbon Dioxide is the stuff of life, not a pollutant. Presented to homeschool parents and students at the Mises Institute, 23 September
Recycling happens naturally when there is market demand for waste items like plastic, paper, metal or glass, but mandated recycling does more harm than good. When do you know that recycling is worthy? You know when some person or business asks to buy your particular waste from you, not when some authority forces you to recycle. Thus, metal and
We , this satirical and heretical dystopian futurist book, ends by resolving whether or not the protagonist can find penultimate happiness in the cocoon of the One State even as his lover faces execution. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the
Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed, writes Floy Lilley. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the
There are three things everybody knows when we talk trash: We know we’re running out of landfill space; we know we’re saving resources and protecting the environment by recycling; and we know no one would recycle if they weren’t forced to. Let’s look at these three things we think we know. Are they real or are they rubbish? 1. Are We Running Out
[Review of We • by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Natasha Randall • New York: Modern Library, 2006. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] The time is a far, far future, 2600 AD. The One State has had total control over the lives of millions for at least one thousand years. Every alphanumeric person
Pictures of the Socialistic Future warns that socialism, promising equality, can deliver only equal poverty and death. It was the details of the socialist program that Eugene Richter could never get from his German Parliament colleagues who beat the drum for a new government. The year was 1893. The place was Germany. The politicians hated him for
Savannah Liston, 17, recently posted comments on her Facebook page, expressing excitement that would be reserved by other teenagers for having won free tickets and an all-expenses-paid trip to a Mumford & Sons concert. Savannah’s event? An online introduction to logic class. 12 hours before class started — “Bad news: FB finally forced me to get
[An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by the author, is available for download .] The crisis was that there was no crisis. The patents that Bruce Ivins held with his coinventors were never going to make him any real money or give him the star attention he deserved, unless the Army became convinced that his “next-generation” anthrax vaccine
The highest market price for potable water today is reflected in an art object. The bottle contains water from springs in France and Fiji and a glacier in Iceland, with a sprinkling of 23-karat-gold dust in the water. It’s Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani , and it fetched $60,000 at auction. For us mere mundanes, however, we can still spend
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