…. I want to be sedated.

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audblog audio post I’m giving a talk to some college students in about a week on, among other things, the role of think tanks in political discourse. I figured I’d throw up a short excerpt from my intended remarks to see what folks thought.

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If someone compared torturing a dog to torturing a child, we would rightly find that offensive. But it would also be pretty hideous to torture your dog in “protest.” So I think Amy has it just right. PETA’s new campaign is morally obtuse, and unlikely to convince anyone. But Meryl Yourish’s “Eat an Animal for […]

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Via Radley, I see that anarchist economist David (neé Milton) Friedman has started blogging.

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Arthur Silber has reported on a horrifying case in Arkansas where a child has repeatedly been harassed by his teachers for being openly gay. He was even suspended for talking about this, and then threatened with expulsion if he told others the reasons for his suspension. Every one of the teachers and administrators involved in […]

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I’ve got a long-running debate with colleague and landlord Gene Healy about constitutional interpretation, which we replayed in a bit more detail over drinks the other night. The dispute arises over a tension that characterizes a lot of libertarian thinking about the law. On the one hand, we want to interpret “commerce” (as in “Congress […]

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Will comments on a post by Matthew Yglesias in which Matthew wonders why libertarians so often promote their ideas as especially “rational” when, after all, we’re supposed to be concerned with what is the moral policy, not merely what’s “rational” for a particular person in the sense of “promoting their self-interest.” Well, first, I think […]

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Via Jim, I discover a flattering post by Avedon Carol, who writes the following about we of the “loyal opposition”: In truth, I regard honest libertarians as fellow travellers who are very nearly liberals – who just haven’t figured out yet that all Big Institutions can turn ugly on you, even when they are privately-owned. […]

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Apologies for the light blogging; I’ve been inordinately busy and then spent most of this morning recovering from my 24th birthday. Speaking of which, I listened to my last audioblog (now, mercifully, deleted) and had a minor epiphany: several hours into a pubcrawl is quite possibly the worst possible time to audioblog. Anyway, regular blogging […]

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The Baltimore Sun has run a story on blogs, with lots of quotations from folks at Blogorama. I’m rather amusingly described as follows: Flitting among the conversations was Julian Sanchez — author of “Notes From the Lounge” — who held a cigarette in one hand and a martini in the other. Sanchez was the dapper […]

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