Does Culture Require Censorship and Corporate Privilege?
Nov 01I haven’t read the book Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back by Rob Levine (definitely not to be confused with David Levine), but Levine summarises his case here, and Mike Masnick offers what seems to me a pretty devastating reply.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 14
Aug 30Also at BHL, Gary Chartier reviews Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 10
Aug 22Charles has another post up at BHL: I’m Against Free Trade Agreements Because I’m For Free Trade.
Flaming Toadstools of Justice
Aug 09Here are some ethical conundra I’ve been pondering. Thoughts? 1. Consider the following three cases: a. I invite you to my house for dinner. When you arrive, I serve you a casserole made from (what I know to be) poisonous toadstools. You eat it, and consequently die. b. We encounter each other in the forest. [...]
How the U.S. Military Protects Our Freedom
Jul 10Science fiction and mystery author Philip Wylie sounds, from his Wikipedia page, like an interesting guy. His stories and novels (When Worlds Collide is the best known, and the only one I’ve read) have been credited with inspiring some of popular entertainment’s most famous characters – Superman, Flash Gordon, Doc Savage, and Travis McGee. He’s [...]
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