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Another Point in Favor of Private, Competing Police Services

The stuff coming out about the Cleveland police department on these abducted girls is pretty damning… Here’s just some of it: Lugo said about two years ago his sister told him she heard a woman pounding on a window at Castro’s home as if she needed help. When his sister looked up, she saw a […]

Murphy Talk on “Spreading the Gift” at “Anarchy in the NYC” Event

On April 20 I gave the opening talk at the “Anarchy in the NYC” event. In case you don’t know, this event featured a bunch of young anarchists of various persuasions, as well as bands. So I had to unveil Tough Guy Murphy for this one. One last caveat: There is about 45 seconds of […]

Potpourri

==> Shawn Ritenour writes a lengthy summary and critique of Market Monetarism. ==> This guy sent me his critique of Gene Callahan and my conversation on Say’s Law. Eh, I’m going to be honest: I was a little annoyed at him using my first name in such a flippant manner, but what really pushed me […]

Onion on Anarchy

From the article “New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don’t Want To Have A Country Anymore”: “I already belong to a health club, a church, and the Kiwanis Club,” Tammy Golden of Los Angeles wrote. “I’m a member of the Von’s Grocery Super Savers, which gets me a discount on certain groceries. These are […]

Inside a Mob Family

I was listening to this Fresh Air interview with the son of mobster Frank Calabrese. The interview was from 2011 but Frank Sr. apparently just died on Christmas, so they re-broadcast it. It’s pretty good stuff; there are details about loan sharking and killing a guy who is wily, etc. The mob movies are always […]

Do Libertarians Have a Problem With Authority?

My article today at The American Conservative. Here’s the opening: A silly episode on Facebook recently underscored one of the tensions in the liberty movement: many people are attracted to libertarianism because they simply don’t like rules. This attitude stands in contrast to conservatives who also disdain big government but who don’t reject authority per se — […]

David Friedman on Anarcho-Capitalism

A neat little interview (HT2 David R. Henderson). The interviewer asked him what Milton Friedman thought about it. I would never have had the courage to do that, thinking that he might be sick of people asking him about his dad.

NFL Referee Lockout and Private Law

This is a message I just sent to an email List, which I thought some of you might enjoy too: Just a thought for those of you who teach and discuss private law with your students: It seems to me that the NFL lock-out is a great opportunity to talk about private legal systems and […]