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Really Silent Scream
New studies suggest that the human fetus is incapable of feeling pain during the first six months. (CHT Der Leiter.)
Machineries of Freedom
Two very good things have happened:
David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom, one of the most influential free-market anarchist works of the last 100 years, is now available online (in PDF format).
Kevin Carson’s latest book, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution, is now in print.
Bobbing Along on the Beautiful Briny Sea
From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department:
[BP CEO Tony] Hayward took a break from overseeing the energy giant’s efforts to contain the undersea leak so he could watch his 52-foot yacht “Bob” participate in the J. P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.
If you put that description in fiction people would say: “the J. P. Morgan reference is too much; your satire is too heavy-handed.”
Merchant’s Lunch
The proper libertarian attitude toward the Civil Rights Act, lunchcounter sit-ins, and Rand Paul’s comments thereon – a topic debated in these pages a month ago – is the subject of this month’s Cato Unbound. Up so far are posts by David Bernstein (defending anti-discrimination laws in certain contexts, while at the same time defending libertarian opponents of such laws against the charge of racism) and Sheldon Richman (opposing anti-discrimination laws while defending direct action against discriminatory establishments). Responses by Jason Kuznicki and Jeffrey Miron are forthcoming.
These exchanges should be mandatory reading (using “mandatory” metaphorically, of course) for both Rand Paul and Rachel Maddow.
Twelve Voices, Part 2
I just saw Olbermann calling for Rick Barber to be imprisoned for exercising his right to free speech. I wonder what percentage of anarchism that is?