The New York Times offers a very funny look at the new fashion for calling Obama a socialist and investigates this issue as if the phenomenon is a strange linguistic invasion that requires the expertise of a psychoanalyst. Hence, the first expert to weigh in chalks the use of the word up to “unconscious anxieties about modernity.” Where are the
The judge tacked on an $20 million following a comment from Microsoft’s attorney that the plaintiff was only seeking a TARP-like bailout for his failed business.
Hardly anything else in the world can be interesting if you are reading Jennifer Burn’s biography of Ayn Rand called Goddess of the Market . It’s the kind of book that while reading a bomb could go off around you and you wouldn’t notice. It is that engaging, page after page. She manages to be once objective and compelling, reconstructing Rand’s
I’ve been reading Mao’s Little Red Book , which I gather achieved some level of popularity among the New Left in the 1960s, which is nothing short of astonishing, given its open and aggressive call for mass death against resistors and it’s dripping-with-blood rhetoric about armed struggle from beginning to end. “Wherever there is struggle there is
Philip Greenspun debunks the notion that the economy is recovering: 1) you can’t trust GDP, 2) investment is falling, 3) there is no recovery in private sector jobs. It is also very interesting to me that the money stock is falling because lending has collapsed despite vast injections of
Three days ago, a 2004 BBC documentary on the life of 16th century composer William Byrd was listed by Amazon with a sales rank lower than 110,000. Who even knew it existed? Yesterday, the sales rank was 11,000 — having shot up 100,000 points. Why and how? It was put online by someone , but not the BBC, and widely linked, to the cheers of everyone
Everyone knows that the Obama administration’s decision to suspend consideration of applications to drill in the Arctic is driven by political considerations, some attempt to “respond” to the BP mess in the Gulf. But what strikes me as just how willy nilly the state acts toward the goods and services that fuel civilization itself. The decision
The archives of what we are calling the Old Freeman are now complete , more than 100 issues of this extremely rare periodical. Today we are putting up a publication hardly anyone even knows about. It was called Faith and Freedom , from the early 1950s. Talk about the memory hole! And yet it was a haven for many outstanding libertarian writers,
The press says that the nation was transfixed by a spaceship-like balloon last week that was supposedly carrying a young child, with press and police chasing this thing for miles, but then it turned out to be a hoax. Not having been among the transfixed - I had never heard of this until yesterday - it strikes me as a testament to the gullibility
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