Value freedom? Watch The Singing Revolution

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

The documentary's trailer: Interview with one of the directors giving background and summary: For a couple more videos and background, see Reason.tv's page on Estonia and the Singing Revolution and the documentary's website.

Realizing Freedom by Tom Palmer

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

If you're interested in defending free markets, I highly recommend listening to or watching Tom Palmer's talk about his new book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice at a Cato Institute book forum last week. Tyler Cowen's comments about it are also worthwhile. The event and book sites linked above ...

Don’t just “do something,” stand there

Monday, January 12th, 2009

From Russ Roberts' op-ed in the Wall Street Journal*: Back in March, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke and the experts assured us that Bear Stearns had to be propped up. If not, the whole system could come crashing down. It is crashing down anyway. Just as in the 1930s, there is no ...