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Here 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.

Another blow for unilateral free trade and methodological individualism - this time from The New Indian Express on Sunday - the south Indian paper.

Ban Communism

Here 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 […]

As 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 […]

Noam 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

High 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 […]

Understanding Understanding

Note:
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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