QotD: The Millennial Generation or “Generation Wuss”?
I have been living with someone from the Millennial generation for the last four years (he’s now 27) and sometimes I’m charmed and sometimes I’m exasperated by how him and his friends — as well as the...
View ArticleFrench restaurant food quality is declining – send in the regulators!
Tim Harford on the recent French government attempt to “fix” the declining quality of food served in restaurants: “Each time I visit the city the food gets worse and worse.” Tyler Cowen, economics...
View Article“These bugs were found – and were findable – because of open-source scrutiny”
ESR talks about the visibility problem in software bugs: The first thing to notice here is that these bugs were found – and were findable – because of open-source scrutiny. There’s a “things seen...
View Article“…the outcomes of U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Libya disprove...
Nick Gillespie responds to a really dumb argument against libertarianism: As one of the folks (along with Matt Welch, natch), who started the whole “Libertarian Moment” meme way back in 2008, it’s been...
View ArticleImplementing libertarian principles in practical politics
P.J. O’Rourke talks to Senator Rand Paul: The Senator smiled and shrugged. “I never really felt like it was a problem explaining libertarian principles in practical politics. Republicans are champions...
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