Do you know who’s responsible for our current economic plight?
Apparently it’s that familiar trinity of Larry Summers, Ayn Rand, and someone named Freidrich Von Hayeck.
Thom Hartmann explains.
Tom Woods seems oddly skeptical.
Archive | April, 2009
Romper Room
I love this description: Sardis (city of Gyges and Crœsus) was under Persian rule “until the great Hellenistic freedom fighter, Alexander the Great, romped into Sardis.”
Reviewing the Encyclopedia
I have not abandoned my plan to blog my way through the Cato Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, but in the meantime, here’s a review by Roger Donway.
Tock … Tock … Tock …
The deadline for submitting papers to the Molinari Society’s symposium on intellectual property is now ONE WEEK AWAY.
Who Said This?
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
That idea of hardships being good for character and of talent always being able to break through is an old fallacy. Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the “luck” has to be helped along and provided by someone. … Talent does not survive all obstacles. In fact, in the face of hardships, talent is the first one to perish; the rarest plants are usually the most fragile. Our present-day struggle for existence is the coarsest and ugliest phenomenon that has ever appeared on earth. It takes a tough skin to face it, a very tough one. Are talented people born with tough skins? Hardly. In fact, the more talent one possesses the more sensitive one is, as a rule. And if there is a more tragic figure than a sensitive, worthwhile person facing life without money – I don’t know where it can be found. …
[H]elp for young talent …. not only provides human, decent living conditions which a poor beginner could not afford anywhere else, but it provides that other great necessity of life: understanding. It makes a beginner feel that he is not, after all, an intruder with all the world laughing at him and rejecting him at very step, but that there are people who consider it worthwhile to dedicate their work to helping and encouraging him. Isn’t such an organization worthy of everyone’s support? … So many gamble on roulette, and slot machines, and horses. Why not gamble for a change on human beings and human futures?
Appeal for Arthur Silber
Arthur Silber, a great left-libertarian/post-Randian writer, is in even worse financial shape than most of us. Please help him if you can.