Entries from December 2008

December 23, 2008

Forecast for the Free Market: Stormy

(This piece was originally published on The Whited Sepulchre).

This writing under a deadline stuff is hard. Unlike the author of The Whited Sepulchre, I’m not accustomed to writing on a daily basis. Usually I just wait for some item in the news to strike me in the right way, and I knock out a [...]

December 17, 2008

Founding Errors

We libertarians often focus on the top-down restrictions on our liberty, like the Patriot Act or the bailout. But I think we often overlook the fact that much of the loss of freedom in this country is not dictated by the federal government against our will. In many cases, individuals at the grassroots level actively [...]