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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Random Thoughts on the Cato Dispute

…market is quite willing to pay for philosophy, including some similar philosophy: whatever one thinks of Ayn Rand, people still buy Atlas Shrugs and the Fountainhead. Ditto much of Heinlein’s…

More on Michigan Voting

The U.S. Election Atlas shows the Michigan county by county results for the general election in 2008. Note that they have inexplicably reversed the normal Red-Blue color coding. Contrast those…