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Democracy as tyranny
2 Comments Published by sauvik January 23rd, 2006 in Libertarian, Anarcho Capitalism, PhilosophyHere is an excellent review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Democracy: The God that Failed by Keith Preston, who is billed as America’s revolutionary vanguard.
The Navel… and the WTO
6 Comments Published by sauvik January 22nd, 2006 in Economics, Libertarian, PhilosophyAnother blow for unilateral free trade and methodological individualism - this time from The New Indian Express on Sunday - the south Indian paper.
Ban Communism
47 Comments Published by sauvik December 31st, 2005 in Economics, Stimulants, PhilosophyHere is the full, unedited text of a provocatively titled piece I wrote for The Times of India.
Communists despise private property and idealise commonly held property. But I’ll bet Brinda and Prakash Karat don’t share a toothbrush! So let us conduct a “reductio” thought experiment as to what would happen in a city or town […]
Intelligent Design and falsifiability
6 Comments Published by Yazad Jal November 10th, 2005 in Philosophy, ScienceAs an atheist, I find the entire concept of Intelligent Design (ID) absurd. But sometimes with strong emotions, clear thinking gets clouded. Uriah Kriegel questions not whether ID is true or false or even whether it’s good or bad science. He questions whether it is science at all. And he uses a clear […]
A closet capitalist called Chomsky
22 Comments Published by Yazad Jal October 25th, 2005 in PhilosophyNoam Chomsky, recently voted as the world’s top public intellectual is a closet capitalist. Don’t shake your head and drown me in his numerous speeches and books. Instead of listening to him talk, watch what he does. Hoover Institute’s Peter Schweizer did exactly that and here’s what he came up with:
One of the most persistent […]
Postrel on Hayek
1 Comment Published by Yazad Jal January 17th, 2004 in Economics, Libertarian, PhilosophyHigh on my “to-blog-about” list is this article on Friedrich Hayek by Virginia Postrel. It’s a wonderful introduction to an economist who won the Nobel for his work on monetary theory, and had a varied repetoire that included several works on political science, philosopy, law and psychology!
Beginning with “The Sensory Order,” he began to differentiate […]
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You should probably skip this. The interesting stuff, like a fisking of the Resident Idiot is below.
I think I will make a series of posts on Common Errors in Reasoning. Once I am done, I will have a handy bunch of URLs I can point people to when they make the same error for the […]
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