Lots of interest in Ayn Rand, with two new books about her and her lasting influence: Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right Ayn Rand and the World she Made Which, perhaps, prompted this disappointing piece by Dan Hannan in The American Conservative which has a lot […]
Reader Norman Fraser quotes from this anti-Rand piece: In Rand’s novels the heroes pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. They made big profits in unfavorable economic climates. Try pulling yourself up by your shoelaces. It can’t be done. Its all story telling, with no basis in documented experience. And of […]
My various blog posts on the Kaminski story have caught a wider audience. So I have decided today to come out. Back in May this year I, like everyone else, was revolted by the goings-on in Parliament and Government over expenses and other abuses. What especially annoyed me was the […]
Here is a curious piece by LeftOutside trying to explain why "the overwhelming body of evidence in favour of Socialism" stops him being lured by libertarian ideas: When the tax revenue of South Koreans was directed towards the manufacture of Microwaves it was neither an area they specialised in nor […]
Here is the Comment I have posted on OutsideLeft’s site: I have lived for most of my life in countries grappling with different forms of socialism (communist Yugoslavia, apartheid S Africa) or trying to escape from it (post-communist Russia, post-war Bosnia, post-Milosevic Serbia, post-communist Poland). So I feel qualified to […]
The Total Politics list of the Top 300 UK political blogs is here. I have sunk to place 196 from 161 last year. Craig Murray has soared to 95 from 145. Aaargh. The methodology of this survey was curious this year, with people being expected to list ten blogs to […]
The idea has emerged at Constantly Furious of the Total Politics Top 20 Libertarian blogs 2009 each linking to the list, for ease of reference for readers. Here it is (below). Have a browse. All shapes and sizes of libertarian attitudes and styles represented, and the list does represent the […]
The results of the Total Politics blog survey 2009 are emerging. This blog made it again into the Top 20 UK Libertarian blog list, albeit down several notches (11th last year, 16th this year). This year again my total readership has moved upwards steadily, but I suspect that the TP 2009 […]
If (as you do) you wanted to sell to a peevish US public the idea of more state intervention in healthcare, what would be a Really Bad way to do it? Give a rambling example of the private sector flourishing and the ‘official’ sector failing in the same market! That would […]
Liam Murray tries to look at healthcase provision according to some basic principles, and is unimpressed with the idea that the state back out: If you can’t afford healthcare then you have no such personal liberty. In a rich, developed country like the US it offends decency for anyone to […]
