In an article On Left and Right published on Antiwar.com yesterday, Robert Paul Wolff, avowed Marxist and professor of Afro-American Studies, issues a call for leftists and libertarians to work together against the imperialist state. Interesting, but so what, right? Well, there’s a story here. In 1970 Wolff published a short (80 page) book called
Blogs: The next big thing for advertisers? Do I worry about blog advertising corrupting the medium? Not very much. [...] But because with blogging the price of entry is so low, you can never have ownership consolidation. It will always be a distributed medium and therefore very difficult to control. If professional bloggers emerged who came to be
The cover story of Time ($$) this week discusses Apple and Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The basic frame of the article is that “Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong”, but then goes on to explain how its strategy has been working. The strategy referred to here is that Apple makes its own hardware, OS, apps and consumer-electrics devices
American intellectual life in the early 20th century has a dirty secret and its name is Eugenics. Alex Tabarrok points out an excellent article by Thomas C. Leonard on Protecting Family and Race: The Progressive Case for Regulating Women’s Work (PDF). Leonard makes the point that Progressive support for exclusionary labor legislation for women,
The Man in the White Suit (1951) In this hilarious film Alec Guinness plays Sidney Stratton, a brilliant scientist who is struggling to complete his research on a new kind of fabric that will not only be nearly indestructible but even repel dirt. He is booted out of one industrial lab after another each time his personal project is discovered
The Terminal (2004) Though I can’t quite bring myself to add this to the film page (due primarily to quality issues) this Spielberg film deserves at least a mention. Left and Right are in agreement on the virtues of being a citizen, whether forking over our money for redistribution or sending our children off to glorious wars all right-thinking
Films on Liberty and the State Election (1999) This bleak, black (and very funny) comedy has many targets but, as the title suggests, democratic politics is a chief one. Our great electoral exercises are here lampooned by focussing on elections for that most meaningless of positions: high school student president. The earnest seriousness of the
Films on Liberty and the State Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) If only there were more films like this! This top quality film highlights an evil of the State that actually occurred but at its center the film is about a courageous quest for liberty worthy of Tolkien. In 1931 Australia, it is the official policy of the government that all “half-caste”
A story on Slashdot, the popular “News for Nerds” site expresses concerns about Internet Service Providers trying to create a two-tiered Internet . The top comment on the story (meaning it was posted quickly and then rated highly by Slashdot readers) is by A.B. Dada who seems to be a Mises.org and LRC reader. He writes : Real deregulation has
Given the recent events in France, I thought it might be worth calling attention again to the film Hate on the Mises film list . Here is what I wrote about it a couple years ago (also see my related review of Once Were Warriors ): Hate (1995) Welcome to the international welfare culture. Starting in a government housing project in Paris, this
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