Our Dystopian Future: Biodiesel
Recently, I was listening to the BrainStuff podcast, which I highly recommend, and Marshall Brain, the host and founder of Howstuffworks.com covers the possibility of bacteria or algae being used to...
View ArticleArthur C. Clarke vs. Economics and Capitalism
A few years ago in honor of Arthur C. Clarke’s then-recent birthday, I wrote on my own blog that he must never have read Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, because according to this quote cited by...
View ArticleThe State’s Corruption of Nuclear Power
There’s a lot of misinformation and confusion out there about nuclear power. Environmentalist wackos are against nuclear because they are against energy; as environut Paul Ehrlich infamously said,...
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Democracy Distorts Democracy!
That, at least, was my impression of the worry expressed in a recent Wired.com article, “Real-Time Debate Feedback Distorts Democracy.” What’s all the hoopla about? Well, you may recall that back in...
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Hayden Responds to “Climate Contrarians Ignore Overwhelming Evidence”
Physicist Howard Hayden, a staunch advocate of sound energy policy, sent me a copy of his scathing letter to the Wall Street Journal in response to Climate Contrarians Ignore Overwhelming Evidence, a...
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Kinsella’s “Rethinking Intellectual Property” course: Audio and Slides
Update: now podcast at KOL172. In late 2010 I taught my first Mises Academy course, “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics.”1 I reprised the course in Spring 2011:...
View ArticleVint Cerf’s Confusing Views on Internet Access and Human Rights
Vint Cerf, the “father of the Internet,” has given very confusing reasons for his view that Internet Access Is Not a Human Right. First, he says that Internet access, unlike freedom of speech and...
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TLS Podcast Picks: Cuba, Public Pensions, 3D Printing and IP
Recommended podcasts: “Cuba’s New Now,” KERA Think (Nov. 8, 2012). Fascinating interview by the amazing KERA Think host, Krys Boyd: “What has changed in Cuba since Fidel Castro ostensibly stepped away...
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Hedy Lamarr Bet on the Wrong Horse
“Hedy stands naked in a field. She looks off-camera in dismay as her horse gallops away with the clothes she had draped over its back to take a dip in a woodland pond.” That’s the opening line of my...
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Yes, We Have No Bananas
In a recent post on my personal blog (“Is mediocrity intelligent?”), I talked about the importance of a diversity of strategies — even apparently “wrong” ones — to the long-term survival of a species....
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