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David Friedman’s (Partial) Defense of Christine O’Donnell

David R. Henderson pointed out David Friedman’s series of blog posts looking into the “common knowledge” that Christine O’Donnell is a nut. This is the best one, in my opinion. Let me be clear: I think I speak for both Davids, as well as myself, when I say that the point here isn’t to say, […]

Those Lying Taliban!

I was listening to NPR on the way to work, and in the top-of-the-hour news update they were matter-of-factly discussing a helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed 9 Americans. Not an exact quote, but the announcer said something like this: “The cause of the crash is unclear. Taliban spokespersons claim that they shot down the […]

Gold At $1297…

Apparently the Fed’s announcement didn’t reassure people that dollar strength was Job 1…

Why Brad DeLong Is More Honest Than Paul Krugman

Both of them have been mocking the self-pitying rich, which (in and of itself) is fair enough. (I.e. nobody who makes more than $400,000 should be publicly complaining about his difficult financial position, unless it’s tongue-in-cheek.) But DeLong has the decency to say: I know how [people in the top 1% of income earners] feel. […]

A Pleasant Stroll in La Jolla

We are in the middle of a long break period at this Liberty Fund conference in La Jolla. Our hotel (which shall remain undisclosed so as to foil the FBI) is close to the ocean. I took a stroll down to the beach and took a picture of these seals: (BTW I obviously need to […]

Sophisticated Spammers

Just a quick note, Free Advice has been getting blitzed by spammers in the comments lately. They used to be really easy for me to distinguish from real comments, because they would say stuff like: johnny decided that it would be pugnacious for him to elevate the rainbow ugg boots But today I got hit […]

Patri Friedman Will Pay You to Free the World

…in the Seasteading Institute’s “Sink or Swim” contest, with a top prize of $2,500. Details here. Here’s the press release.

An Introduction to Libertarianism

Chad Everson is helping me promote my online Mises Academy class on Principles of Economics (which starts September 8!). He asked me to explain how libertarianism fits into the conventional Republican/Democratic political establishment in the United States, because it often seems as if libertarians straddle the fence. This is a common reaction when people begin […]