Is that a smirk I see on David Hume's face? Yes it is. He has just read John Derbyshire's new blog, Secular Right , and he is tryin...

The economics of pirating , care of Scientific American .

Friedrich Hayek, the great Austrian economist, on Meet the Press in 1975. The circumstances at the time was primarily inflation and rising...

Hello? Bailout people? Mr. Secretary of the Treasury Paulson? Aren't you forgetting somebody? Like me? I'm a print journalist. Talk ...

From Iowahawk , on target as usual.

I am in the middle of James Kalb's extraordinarily insightful new book, The Tyranny of Liberalism . I will be reviewing it later, but ...

The Tolerance Police change their tactics. Now they're going to indoctrinate us nicely .

Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education. In particular, such instruction would do more f...

Thanks to Freddie at What's Wrong with the World for this one.

This article by philosopher Thomas Nagel is one of the better treatments I have seen of the Intelligent Design issue.

Even though I disagree with him on a lot of issues, Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars is normally fairly sensible--a sensibilit...