Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, libertarian law professor Ilya Somin celebrates The Godfather for all the right reasons. Here also is the Mises Institute’s movie guide on the Godfather movies, and Robert Murphy on whether we should loathe or love the mafia . And of course Murray Rothbard was there first, with his Libertarian Forum review , and this
In case you missed it, yesterday’s New York Times offered a profile of “freegans” -- people who live as much as possible, and relatively well, off other people’s garbage, which they get for free by combing through dumpsters and the like. That’s fine, if it’s how you want to live, but the article gets really good when the freegans offer their
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