Ebook Price Fixing and Bad Journalism

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 12, 2012

You may have heard that the Department of Justice decided to launch antitrust litigation against Apple and some major publishers for alleged price fixing and that most of them decided on the same day to settle. The alleged sin was that Apple and the publishers decided to go with the agency pricing model in which [...]

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The Most Visited Libertarian Websites

by Stephan Kinsella April 11, 2012

The Capital Free Press has compiled a list of the top ranked “libertarian websites based on the number of unique visitors in the most recent month according to the data compiled by Compete.” The post is pasted below. Not surprisingly, LewRockwell.com is the most visited libertarian site. Four of my own sites made the list: [...]

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Tom Woods’s Liberty Classroom

by Stephan Kinsella April 11, 2012

My friend Tom Woods has just launched an exciting new educational platform: Liberty Classroom, the tagline of which is: “The History They Didn’t Teach You.” As the website explains: The intellectual battle for the free society is on. Liberty Classroom’s ambitious goal is to equip as many ambassadors of liberty as possible with the knowledge [...]

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Education by Experience as the Only Hope for Mankind

by Stephan Kinsella April 9, 2012

a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. —Thomas Paine It has been my experience that many libertarians abhor realism. They deride it as [...]

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TLS Podcast Picks: Ridley and Lehrer on Creativity and Ideas

by Stephan Kinsella April 7, 2012

Recommended podcasts: “How Creativity Works: An interview with Jonah Lehrer,” by June Thomas, Slate’s The Afterword podcast (Friday, March 30, 2012).  “In Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer explores some of the myths of creativity and discovers that it isn’t a gift possessed by a lucky few, but rather a variety of processes that everyone [...]

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‘Hispanic’ vs. ‘White’

by Ryan McMaken April 4, 2012

As a Hispanic, watching the media’s use of terms like “white” and “Hispanic” and “Latino” in the Zimmerman-Martin case has been an occasion for much eye-rolling. The way the press uses these terms betrays just how completely ignorant most reporters and talking heads are about even the basics of ethnicity and race in this country. [...]

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The myth of high Muslim fertility rates, and the threat they pose

by Ryan McMaken April 2, 2012

Important to the anti-Muslim narrative is the idea that Muslims reproduce at prodigious rates, and that this poses an existential threat to the West. Specifically, Muslims are reproducing so quickly, that within a generation or two, they will overwhelm the entire Western world. These predictions are usually muttered by brooding prophets of doom who predict [...]

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