Monthly Archives: November 2010

Ad Valorem, Aïda, and Oligarchy

30th
Nov. × ’10
By Roderick

I’m back in the frozen north (relatively speaking). Various items, in no particular order: 1. The following proposal appeared on the Nov. 2, 2010 Alabama ballot: Proposed Statewide Amendment Number One (1) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to provide that the provision in Amendment 778, now appearing as Section 269.08 [...]

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A Key Text

26th
Nov. × ’10
By Roderick

Hey all. I’m spending a very relaxing but all too short Thanksgiving break in Key Largo. Ran down to Key West on Wednesday, had a great holiday dinner back here at the Conch House on Thursday. Heading back tomorrow morning, alas. Jeff Riggenbach quotes me in his piece on Nozick on Mises.org today.

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Lane’s Forgotten Writings on Race

26th
Nov. × ’10
By Roderick

Among libertarians, Rose Wilder Lane is best known as the author of the libertarian classics The Discovery of Freedom and Give Me Liberty. Outside of the libertarian movement, she is known – if at all – as the at least partial ghostwriter of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular Little House on the Prairie series [...]

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Battlestar West

11th
Nov. × ’10
By Roderick

Wild, Wild West was a terrific series, and one of the first science-fiction westerns. (I’ve long suspected that the show’s “James T. West” played a role in transforming Star Trek’s James R. Kirk into James T. Kirk.) Then it spawned two awful tv-movies, and finally a still more awful theatrical movie. At this point, is [...]

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Boston Anarchist Thinking Brigade

11th
Nov. × ’10
By Roderick

The Molinari Society will be holding its seventh annual Symposium – this time with two sessions – in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Boston, December 27-30, 2010. Here’s the latest schedule info: GIV-3. Tuesday, 28 December 2010, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Molinari Society Symposium, SESSION 1: Author Meets Critics: Gary Chartier’s [...]

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Down Home on the TARDIS

8th
Nov. × ’10
By Roderick

The forthcoming dvd for the most recent series of Doctor Who includes two extra scenes, which as it happens are also available – at least for the moment – on YouTube, so watch ’em while you can. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy there’s a beverage dispenser on the spaceship that Douglas Adams describes [...]

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