- Holy shit! (great news)
- Hayek’s rapid rise to stardom | misunderstanding Hayek
- great write-up on Catalonia | a philosophical case for secession
- if colonialism was the apocalypse, what comes next? | should UNM replace its seal?
- do trees fall in cyberspace? | how to use Facebook better
- a pretty shallow deep throat | vulvæ in pornography and culture
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BC’s weekend reads
- on BBC bias | fake news and political entrepreneurship
- Leftist hypocrisy at its finest | goose pimples and hypocrisy
- classical liberals and libertarians are asking the wrong question about sovereignty | myths of British sovereignty and isolation (XII)
- 4 reasons why the academy will remain mostly unwelcoming to the Right | Carlos Castaneda’s fraudulent scholarship
- Soviet ice cream | the economics of hard choices
BC’s weekend reads
- the Economist endorses the Liberal Democrats in UK election (in Europe, a liberal democrat is roughly the same thing as a libertarian in the US)
- “One of the most important lessons of Trump’s success is that classically liberal rhetoric and positions were not very important to voters.“
- “It turns out that Westerners are rational, virtuous, and liberty-loving, while Orientals are irrational, vicious, and slavish.“
- The West is indifferent to Afghanistan and Iraq’s world of terror
- Roman slavery, revolution, and magic mushrooms
- What the fuck?
BC’s weekend reads
- NATO sends a message to Russia
- Iraq doesn’t need to break up to be successful (so says a scholar at Brookings)
- Benedict Anderson (political science) reviews Clifford Geertz (anthropology)
- The Muddled Mystique of Karl Polanyi
- The prison house of gender
- Investigating Madison’s Political Religion (central planning is hard to do)
BC’s weekend reads
- Turkey and the Case of the Magical Vanishing Coup
- Is the overthrow of a democratically elected government ever justified?
- John and Abigail Adams educated their son, John Quincy, to become the worthy successor of the Founding generation of the new regime
- An American economist’s observations from Europe
- The Influence of Culture on Science, and the Culture of Science
- Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor
PS: Did anyone else notice that the Brexit vote was 51%-49%? I mean, there’s a lot to think about there, especially for libertarians who claim that democracy sucks but Brexit/Nexit/Grexit is totally and completely justified if the people demand it…
BC’s weekend reads
- The debt of a Pope called Francis to past Syrian refugees, Part 1 (be sure to check out parts 2 and 3, too)
- Ten Things I Want My Children To Learn From 9/11 (and also “Ten (or So) Lessons of 9/11“)
- Hellburners Were the Renaissance’s Tactical Nukes
- The Inevitable Divorce: Secular France and Radical Islam
- How Petty Traffic Fines Ruin Lives in Milwaukee (and Everywhere in America)
- Edwin and Barry both have excellent posts on current events in Europe and the Near East (Jacques has a related post); be sure to scroll through all the comments in their respective threads…
Around the Web
- Political scientist Jason Sorens on the elections in Europe (best summary I’ve read; it’s short, sweet, and to the point)
- Examining Piketty’s data sources for US wealth inequality (Part 4 of 4)
- Greece the Establishment Clause: Clarence Thomas’s Church-State Originalism
- Strong Words and Large Letters
- The African Muslim Fist-Bump
- Why US Intervention in Nigeria is a Bad Idea
Around the Web
- Reading Tocqueville in Qatar and at Georgetown
- Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism: Blame Nationalism for Both
- The Issue of Selective Prosecution
- Eric Prince: Out of Blackwater and into China; The WSJ‘s weekend interview with the founder of Blackwater is particularly good. If you hit a paywall, just copy and paste the title and enter it into your Google search bar. Click on the first link and voila.
- A short history of economic anthropology (grab a cup of coffee first)
- The market may be colorblind, but politics isn’t: Race, class and economic opportunity
Around the Web
The Images of Progressive Citizenship. Haunting.
Austrian themes, data, and sports economics. By co-blogger Stephen Shmanske
Around the Web: ObamaCare Edition (Part 2)
There is a lot of great stuff out there on the recent ruling. Here are a few I found interesting:
- The ObamaCare Ruling: A Libertarian Call to Rise by philosopher Kevin Vallier.
- Constitutional Disaster? Co-blogger Jacques Delacroix asks some pertinent questions.
- Roberts’ Rules for Self-Government by Greg Weiner over at the Liberty Law Blog.
- Next Step: Repeal the Individual Mandate Because it is Unconstitutional. I think David Kopel is getting a bit desperate, but I hope to god he’s right!
I think I’m done blogging about this whole mess…phlegh!
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