Tom G. Palmer | Libertarian Author, Thinker, & Scholar (original) (raw)

Populist anti-libertarian politics rising

October 14, 2017

“The rise of the illiberal international is only just beginning. So is the long and arduous fight against it.” http://www.slate.com/articles/news\_and\_politics/the\_good\_fight/2017/10/andrej\_babis\_the\_czech\_republic\_has\_a\_trump\_of\_its\_own.html

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The Case for Football

October 8, 2017

I don’t follow football or other sports, but this is a really fine essay. It’s even numerate and full of sound statistical inferences. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/what-liberals-get-wrong-about-football.html

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Gun Control and Magic

October 3, 2017

When you discover there is no Santa Clause. (It turns out that Mom and Dad worked hard to earn money for presents…and food and a home and everything else.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise/2017/10/03/d33edca6-a851-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975\_story.html

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The Demonization of Soros

September 30, 2017

This essay in the Financial Times is spot on. Well put. I do not always agree with him and frequently robustly disagree, but the global assault on him by authoritarian…

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