Should We Sound the Alarm?
Posted in Education on Oct 9th, 2008
Every news item seems to contain a Clarion Call for us to wake up and “do something” about the latest tragedy. And what is the tragedy du jour?
Daily Archive for October 9th, 2008
Slaughter the Sacred Cow
Posted in Corporatism on Oct 9th, 2008
Bryan Caplan points out: If someone said, “So the economy’s tanking. That’s capitalism,” everyone would assume the speaker wanted to limit capitalism. But when someone says, “That’s democracy,” we assume the speaker wants to end the conversation. Democracy is truly the sacred cow of the modern world. He was referencing Barney Frank’s justification for the […]