Daily Archives: December 26, 2010

Float Time, Part 3

26th
Dec. × ’10

It’s not every day that I wake up to find Patri Friedman being quoted in my local newspaper; but this story actually made the Opelika-Auburn News this morning.

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How To Do Things With Words

26th
Dec. × ’10

I propose some new terminology: left-conflationism and right-conflationism. Left-conflationism is the error of treating the evils of existing corporatist capitalism as though they constituted an objection to a freed market. Right-conflationism is the error of treating the virtues of a freed market as though they constituted a justification of the evils of existing corporatist capitalism. [...]

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An End to Allegiance, Part 2

26th
Dec. × ’10

The following letter appeared in yesterday’s Opelika-Auburn News: To the editor: Jim Evans is quite right to point out Saturday that the founders (well, most of them) would not have approved of the insertion of “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. (Some of the founders would probably have had a problem with “indivisible” as [...]

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