My Cato colleague says it better than I could. A must-read post.
by Jason Kuznicki on December 10, 2010
Jason Kuznicki is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound. He's on twitter as JasonKuznicki. His interests include political theory and history.
Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 7 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française.
Everyone knows Cyrano, of course, but much of Rostand’s lyric work has never been read in English before. I’m trying to change that, one poem at a time. ( 7 comments)
Regulatory Capture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( 2 comments)
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It’s a sobering validation of Friedrich Hayek’s famous dictum that to be controlled in our economic pursuits—perhaps now more than ever—means to be controlled in everything.
And that’s a libertarian insight that would never occur to anyone else.
Damn HTML. Take these links as part of the previous post:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/08/18505299.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Flood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
Must read indeed.
Mike: I’m not really concerned to establish my team’s mascot got there first. Marx, Fanon, Foucalt, Debord & (sigh) Chomsky all instructive on this front. You win, I guess, if we’re racing.
Also, totally orthogonally: Poor Chomsky. He’s sort of turned into the Thomas Sowell of the left.
Well somebody had to turn into the Thomas Sowell of the left.
It’s bad enough Thomas Sowell turned into the Thomas Sowell of the right. The guy used to have things to say.
It’s a TOS world; we’re just living in it.
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