SpaceX Marks the Spot
May 22The private space exploration company SpaceX has just launched an (unmanned) space capsule, headed for a rendezvous with the international space station. SpaceX is under contract to NASA, so this isn’t true privatisation yet; but at least it introduces a bit of independence. This seems an appropriate occasion to post once again a link to [...]
Trip Pics VI
May 22More photos: the January 2010 ISIL conference in Phoenix (1 page), the April 2010 APEE conference in Las Vegas (1 page), the April 2011 Mises Circle in Chicago (3 pages), and the April 2011 APEE conference in Nassau (2 pages).
Poe and the Pug Dog
May 20Edgar Allan Poe is famous for anticipating and/or inspiring developments in later writers; the Sherlock Holmes stories, for example, were prompted by Poe’s Dupin trilogy (though Conan Doyle has Holmes dismiss Dupin as a “very inferior fellow”), while the central plot twist in Around the World in 80 Days derives from Poe’s “Three Sundays in [...]
Gide on Molinari
May 20According to Charles Gide’s 1899 review (now posted), the problem with Molinari’s proposed Society of the Future is that it is both too hopelessly utopian – and too similar to the society we’re already living in. There’s no satisfying some people ….
Trip Pics V: Philosophy East and West
May 19More photos – this time from the Dec. 2009 Eastern APA in New York City (1 page), a Jan. 2011 Liberty Fund in La Jolla (5 pages – this is the prettiest set), a May 2011 visit to La Sierra University in Riverside CA (2 pages), and the June 2011 Porcfest in Lancaster NH (4 [...]
Spencer, Hodgskin, and Land Rights
May 18As “everyone knows,” Herbert Spencer was a reactionary defender of capitalism and an opponent of socialism, while Thomas Hodgskin was a proto-Marxian defender of socialism and an opponent of capitalism; so what should one expect from Hodgskin’s review (now online) of Spencer’s Social Statics? The right answer, it turns out, is almost total agreement: “there [...]
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