A British high school student seems to be writing other “Harry Potter” books, including one with 90 chapters (”Meetings in the Tower”) that has become an underground classic. It seems to be formatted as a “quiz,” possibly to avoid copyright trouble (but others have put it into .doc and sent it around). HP-starved teens just can’t wait for the real
Here is George Reisman’s Blog reviewing Ayn Rand Answers, The Best of Her Q&A , Edited by Robert Mayhew, New American Library, 2005. x + 241 pp., a book about which I know nothing, but the review might be a landmark in what the phrase “blistering criticism” means. The post gets hotter and hotter as it moves
Here is a test case to separate decentralist libertarians, who believe that divided sovereignty is the best long-run protection for liberty, from the centralist libertarians, who mistakenly believe that a distant government that is not friend of liberty should be empowered to defend liberty and property rights. The case concerns an unmarried
I’m sitting here in the sweltering heat, wondering why the air conditioner at the Mises Institute is not being fixed after a full week of waiting. I again called the company that services them. He reports that all air conditioning parts and units of this size are extremely hard to come by since FEMA “in its infinite wisdom” bought up the entire
The Club For Growth takes note of this funny speech by Rep. Barney Frank (socialist!), in which he says: “Mr. Chairman, I am here to confess my reading incomprehension. I have listened to many of my conservative friends talk about the wonders of the free market, of the importance of letting the consumers make their best choices, of keeping
Here is an article on Monopoly , the game by Parker Brothers, written by Ben Powell, now of San Jose State, back in February 2004. It was posted before we had a blog that permitted reader reaction. Out of the blue this morning, this email arrived to our offices, and the writer challenged us to post it. So I’m posting it. You can criticize and
Several years ago, perhaps during the mad cow scare, it became something of a trial to get beef at a restaurant that was properly cooked. To get anything less than well done, you had to order rare, and do so clearly and emphatically. I always suspected that this problem—which seems to have abatted—had something to do with health inspectors, or
Here is a comment on the new premium tumbler that says: because it uses leather, we are supporting slavery of defenseless animals.
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