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Score another one for voluntaryism and the free market in the fight against email spam. Tired of receiving tons of spam? Don’t want to join a coercive government registry or support any coercive government legislation? Then you might want to check out Blue Security . The ingenious developers at Blue Security have created a way for you to report

“ Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet “ by Cory Doctorow This recent article on Locus Online , the online companion to Locus Magazine , the “magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field,” is very pertinent to the ongoing Cantor seminar on commerce and culture . Aside from an endorsement of

Reading Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright’s Culture and Enterprise , I was struck by the following percipient and eloquent observation by Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch’ien (c.145-86 BC), over two thousand years ago, regarding the coordinating capacity of the market process: There must be farmers to produce food, men to extract the wealth of

I just found this, and it’s marvelous! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As soon as I could safely toddle My parents handed me a Model; My brisk and energetic pater Provided the accelerator. My mother, with her kindly gumption, The function guiding my consumption; And every week I had from her A lovely new parameter, With lots of

Liberalism, and the market forces it has traditionally championed, helped to undermine and overthrow the old order of the status society which characterized human social existence from the dawn of history up until around the eighteenth century. The old order still continues to exist in some places in the world and is not entirely vanquished even

Why is it important to dramatize our values? Well, morality or ethics, Rand tells us, “is a code of values to guide man’s choices and actions—the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life. Volume 21, Number 4 (2007) Plauché, Geoffrey A. “ Atlas Shrugged and the Importance of Dramatizing Our Values.” Journal of

Economist Ross McKitrick, who along with Steve McIntyre played a major role in discrediting Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph, has an interesting proposal for a carbon emissions tax tied to actual levels of warming. The tax would be linked to tropical troposphere temperatures, which I gather are generally agreed to be “the fingerprint of the CO2

The July-August 1983 issue of Libertarian Forum has been added online in HTML. Here’s what’s inside: “Ronald Reagan, Warmonger” is Murray Rothbard’s lengthy, detailed critique of Reagan’s interventionist foreign policy. The conclusion has a pungent summary tying this in with Reagan’s pseudo-free market domestic policy: The quintessence of Ronald

Rothbard got a favorable mention on a National Review Online blog called The Corner. Ron Paul got a mention in the same post as well, in connection with Rothbard. About Rothbard, John Derbyshire wrote: “Dunno about you, but the more I contemplate our federal government and its works, the better Murray Rothbard is starting to look.” He then quoted

Here’s a fantastic video dramatizing the fact that pirates and emperors are really the same thing. Here’s a direct link to the video on YouTube. Find out more here Hat tip to Sunni for alerting me to