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Atlas… wait a minute, what?

Via the Libertarian Alliance blog, a spot-on comment piece by Simon Heffer. [David Cameron] complains about the “absence of a moral framework” from capitalism. It shows his profound misunderstanding of...

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Sacrifice and reward

Atlas Shrugged is all over the blogs and the news recently, and with good reason. The authoritarians, statists, and socialists among us appear to clutch at every possible opportunity to ridicule the...

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Memory lapse about banning books

Not too many weeks ago, I ran across a blog, the name of which I cannot now remember, in which the author posted a hypothetical government ban on books – not because of their literary content, but...

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Robert Langdon is a Gary Stu

In fan-fiction parlance, the Gary Stu is the male equivalent of a Mary Sue, a fictional character who acts as a place-holder for the wish fulfilment fantasies of the author. This morning, in a shameful...

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Rothbard was no Nostradamus

The epilogue to Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty leaves me very sad. Published in 1978, it expresses his optimistic view that the cause of libertarianism was rapidly gaining ground, and true liberty...

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If only Kassandra had been so lucky

I didn’t start blogging until well after the 2008 US presidential election, so I haven’t got the documentary evidence to prove this, but I was one of the many who said at the time: ‘Well, y’know,...

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