Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Central Planning, Government Thuggery, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Oct 27th, 2017
Heaven forbid if it were. Happy 100th Anniversary! The following is from “the secret archive,” published as “The Unknown Lenin” (1996), and the entry is dated March 1922: “It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the […]
Posted in Immigration on Oct 26th, 2017
Ran into this on the twitter machine. My grandparents and their parents came over here in various stages in the early 1900s, including some family members who seemed to have come illegally in the 1930s. Reprinted in full below: It’s a trope to say America has a long tradition of welcoming immigrants. This is only partially […]
Posted in Central Planning, Government Gone Wild, History on Aug 22nd, 2017
I was in the midst of my high school formative years when a couple of watershed moments in world history happened, and these had fantastically powerful and lasting impacts on me. I grew up in New York City during the Cold War, and there were nuclear fallout shelters in our little Catholic school, and the […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery, Socialism on May 1st, 2017
On this much celebrated day around the world, I repost my mourning for the hundreds of millions that have been brutally tortured, maimed, and murdered in the name of “the social good” and “brotherhood.” Shame on them. And shame on us for not keeping these lesson at the fore. Of course, the trash I get […]
Posted in Institutions, Voluntary Society on Mar 29th, 2017
Well worth your time to read.
Posted in Inequality, Knowledge on Feb 25th, 2017
Pardon my weekend thought. The post title tends to come off as more curmudgeony than I want it to, but my thinking is this. Suppose we move heaven and earth for the next several decades to make sure that every single person in the United States gets the very best and most equal education. In […]
Posted in ethical foundations, History on Feb 2nd, 2017
It is surely the case that Mr. Bentham’s lifetime utility is much larger than would have otherwise been the case. How much should his satisfaction be weighted in the global social utility function? I most certainly love it when my students tell me that they are visiting London or planning to study abroad at UCL […]
Posted in Behavior, Disingenuous, Government Gone Wild, Tribalism on Jan 31st, 2017
President Donald J. Trump is your Nudger in Chief. Here are some glowing endorsements. “For generations paternalism has had a bad odor, and individual autonomy has reigned supreme. Sarah Conly’s book will change all of that. She argues in favor of paternalism with rigor and gusto, and persuasively shows how shedding our reflexive aversion to […]
Posted in Disingenuous, Dynamism - Not, Economic Illiteracy, Extended Order, Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Immigration on Jan 30th, 2017
In fact I’m not at all clear how my family got to America. I think three generations above me had people illegally sneaking into the US from both Canada and I think parts south. But my family doesn’t quite know. But as sure as the ocean is salty, my kind was not much liked – […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery on Jan 29th, 2017
Putting a ban on legal immigrants because of their religion lowers the deplorable President below any action in recent memory by US Presidents. This action certainly ranks right up there with preventing Jewish European refugees from coming to America to flee the terror of 1930s Europe. I have always been a tremendous supporter of civil disobedience. At […]