From the monthly archives:

September 2005

When Government Fails . . . Blame the Market!!!

September 26, 2005

When the contrast between the efficient performance of market organizations like Wal-Mart and FedEx and the incomptent performance of govertment becomes too embarrassing, what do you do? If you’re Daniel Gross, you try desperately to lay the blame for some of the impact of the disaster on efficient management and logistics!
But Wal-Mart and the [...]

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Come to the Liberation Biology Book Forum!!!

September 20, 2005

If you’re in the DC area, I implore you to come to the book forum Cato is hosting on Ron Bailey’s new blockbuster, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution. Ron will talk about his book, and Mark Sagoff, one of the world’s leading experts in environmental ethics, including work on [...]

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What’s the Deal With Intelligent Design?

September 14, 2005

If you’re in DC come by tonight’s AFF Roundtable where I’ll be giving my thoughts, along with Ron Bailey and others, on the what the ID debate says about American politics and culture. Here’s the details:

What’s the deal with Intelligent Design?
September 14, 2005 | America’s Future Foundation
Join us on Wednesday, September 14, for the next [...]

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Tribal Exceptionalism

September 14, 2005

Here’s the conclusion to Matt’s entertaining Prospect piece on the incompetence of Bush appointees:
The other possibility is that Republicans are so convinced that government is inefficient and full of people who don’t know what they’re doing that it just doesn’t occur to them to do it any other way.
Nice. Naturally, Matt is implying that there [...]

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Storms of Stupidity

September 9, 2005

I’ve got a piece up at TCS on the surreal claim that the tragedy in New Orleans was the result of “limited government” and “economic libertarianism.”

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Pictures with Giants

September 6, 2005

On Saturday I attended a Mercatus Center reception at the American Political Science Association in honor of Douglass North’s new book, Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Doug is an intellectual hero of mine, and I was delighted to finally get a picture with him.

(You can check out my review of Understanding the [...]

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