My sense is that the pro-agency narrative for blacks in America is growing. About time.
Continue reading “Anonymous Berkeley Professor Shreds BLM Injustice Narrative”Author: John Todd Roberts
Underpoliced and Overprisoned, revisited
Tabarrok mentions it only briefly in this illuminating essay, but I do not favor “ending the war on drugs.” I understand libertarians’ and economists’ arguments on this topic, but I believe there remain practical reasons for allowing state control of human behavior and choices in certain, narrowly defined circumstances.
Nevertheless, the thesis of the essay — that we spend too little on policing and too much on incarceration — strikes me as profoundly valid. I do favor vastly more police with, in effect, less for them to do.
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Are humans inherently good or inherently bad; inherently communal or inherently individualistic; inherently altruistic or inherently selfish? An anthropologist reviews the evidence in a book review.
Continue reading “Humankind: A Hopeful History”Issue 45: Why everyone hates the mainstream media
“The feature of media that actually draws viewer interest is how media stories either raise or lower particular individuals in status… The status ranking of individuals implied by a particular media source is never the same as yours, and often not even close.” — Tyler Cowen
The first time I read Cowen’s statement, in the original blog post from which it is quoted here, I thought it shallow, or at least facile. But the context the source writer gives it makes the observation come alive.
Continue reading “Issue 45: Why everyone hates the mainstream media”What is Anacyclosis?
I have often referred to the natural cycle or evolution of systems of governance by noting the portrayal of it that Plato gives in The Republic. I didn’t know until this morning that the concept has a name: anacyclosis. If you live long enough you discover that everything has a name.
Continue reading “What is Anacyclosis?”I Lived in a Society That Had No Police
I am intrigued by the proposal to abolish police. The logic is simple enough: When the state becomes corrupt, the police franchise becomes an abuse and an affront to liberty.
Continue reading “I Lived in a Society That Had No Police”The Trump Regime Is Beginning to Topple
Were I to tell you we are living through an orchestrated color revolution in America, I would be called a conspiracy theorist, the moniker intended to discredit the observation. But here is a presumably mainstream publication drawing the exact same parallel.
The best way to understand this piece — especially it’s unabashed triumphalism — is as recruitment propaganda. Seen in that light, the piece is truly pathetic.
It is a last gasp, a dying breath, the wretched effort of the losing side to reclaim whatever is left of its dignity. Given the options before us in November, the “regime” is not likely to be toppled.
U.S.A. fact of the day — the dental-led recovery
The good news on the stock market and the parable of the ox
The parable of the ox in this piece is worth the price of admission. It reveals a fundamental truth of economics which — as an aside — divides the classical theorists into two camps, the Smithians and the Marxians.
A Conspiracy Theorist Confesses
“Regardless of whether or not you think someone’s opinion is a conspiracy theory, you owe it to yourself and your children to consider the evidence they cite. Perhaps you will reject it. There’s nothing wrong with that.
“But to reject it, without knowing what it is, really is crazy. Your only other option is to unquestioningly accept whatever you are told by the government, globalist think tanks, multinational corporations and their mainstream media partners.”
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