Monthly Archives: January 2007

Anarchy Is Loosed Upon the World

30th
Jan. × ’07
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power and Mises Blog] My copy of Ed Stringham’s anthology Anarchy and the Law just arrived in the mail. (Amazon insists that the paperback isn’t available yet, but they’re wrong.) This nearly 700-page book is quite simply the definitive collection on free-market anarchism. Its forty chapters include contributions from Randy Barnett, [...]

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More from the Prez, Less from the Veep

29th
Jan. × ’07
By Roderick

Galactica fans: if you haven’t checked out the full bonus scene between Roslin and Caprica-6 from yesternight’s BSG (what they aired after the show was just a brief excerpt therefrom), here it is. In other news, looks like Atlas, if it gets made at all, will be one movie rather than a trilogy. (Conical hat [...]

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Boston or Baghdad? Philadelphia or Fallujah?

23rd
Jan. × ’07
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] I just saw Senator Lindsey Graham, as part of the televised post-mortem on Bush’s blather, downplaying the lack of progress in Iraq by saying (wording not exact), “Well, we had our revolution in 1776, and we didn’t have a constitution until 1789.” Sorry, no. The United States’ first constitution was [...]

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Feeling Safer Already

21st
Jan. × ’07
By Roderick

A couple of news items: Here’s a gem of New Deal history I didn’t know. From “Today in History,” Opelika-Auburn News, 18 January 2007: In 1943, a wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the U.S. – aimed at reducing bakeries’ demand for metal replacement parts – went into effect. Governmental micromanagement: best [...]

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F. — I.W.

16th
Jan. × ’07
By Roderick

Okay, this story is the exact opposite of the last one. A planeful of passengers willing to sit on the tarmac for eight hours without water or toilet facilities, and a flight crew willing to keep them there, just because American Airlines told them to. Stanley Milgram, call your office! To those who wonder why [...]

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We the Liver

16th
Jan. × ’07
By Roderick

Whatever you may think about the ethics of foie gras (my own view is that producing it violates a duty, that producing it nevertheless violates no right, that consuming it violates no duty, and that refraining from consuming it is nevertheless a permissible specification of an imperfect duty – but like I said, never mind), [...]

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