Thursday, June 29, 2006

CO2 Science’s Finding on Global Warming: A Marxist-Type Response

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One of the very first replies to my posting of CO2 Science’s journal review "A 221-Year Temperature History of the Southwest Coast of ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

An Important Study Challenging the Connection Between CO2 and Global Warming

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I had been receiving e-mails for more than a year from an organization called CO2 Science. They all looked so abstruse and technical that I...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

The New York Times: It Just Can’t Stop Hating Success and the American Way of Life

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To combat climate change, we need to break our addiction to consuming oil, while developing countries need to break their addiction to selli...
Friday, June 23, 2006

Mutualism’s Support for the Exploitation of Labor and State Coercion

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[“Mutualism” is currently a hot topic of discussion on the blog of The Ludwig von Mises Institute. (See the extensive thread following my la...
Sunday, June 18, 2006

Mutualism: A Philosophy for Thieves

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The collapse of socialism-communism has not only given rise to the remarkable growth of environmentalism, as a replacement outlet for hostil...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Freedom Is Slavery: Laissez-Faire Capitalism Is Government Intervention, A Critique of Kevin Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy

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Kevin Carson’s new book Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (Fayettvile, Arkansas, 2004, 409 pp.) centers on the incredible claim, self-...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Not Feldstein’s Gasoline Rationing Scheme but Economic Freedom Will Improve the Environment and Promote National Security

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A noted economist, Prof. Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, has written an article for the supposedly pro-free-enterprise Wall Street J...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Something to Cheer at The New York Times

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Earlier today I would not have believed it possible that I would write something in praise of an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times . But Nic...
Monday, June 05, 2006

The Flagellation of the Pursuit of Happiness

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Paul Krugman is at it again. In today’s New York Times , in his official capacity as a professional bleeding heart “liberal,” he once again ...
Sunday, June 04, 2006

Nocera Replies

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Dear Mr. Reisman-- I enjoyed reading your blog just now, but if you go back and read what I wrote, you'll note that I specifically set a...
Saturday, June 03, 2006

Does the Name “Ayn Rand” Ring a Bell?

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In his New York Times column of June 3, Joseph Nocera asks: who among our better novelists has put business front and center? . . . Tom Wol...
Sunday, May 28, 2006

The Sorry State of Our Union

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Congressmen no longer read the bills they vote on and thus do not require them to make sense. (The latest example is the passage of a bill b...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Platonic Competition, Part II

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This essay originally appeared in Ayn Rand’s The Objectivist, vol. 7, nos. 8 and 9, August and September, 1968. It was posted on May 23, 20...