Libertarian Paternalism: A Response to P. Pilkington

Phillip Pilkington is a research assistant at Kingston University in London and recently penned an article on “Libertarian Paternalism”. It provoked me. This is my response. Phillip, In your article, you said: Look, the libertarian paradigm is...

You Can’t Fight City Hall

“You can’t fight city hall.” The reason is as irritating as it is surprising. Neither “Governments” nor “Corporations” exist anywhere but in the imagination.  Governments and Corporations are artificial entities that exist...
…except Ron Paul

…except Ron Paul

(Fred Reed served as my inspiration for this piece. Credit to him.) Who do I vote for? More to the point, who can I vote for? The candidates all want things I don’t want, and don’t want things I do want. I want a government limited by the constitution....

Why Greece Matters to You – the American Taxpayer

First, Bear Stearns made a bunch of stupid bets on sub-prime mortgages, and you – the American Taxpayer –  bailed them out to the tune of $29 billion in guarantees to JPMorgan, (who bought Bear Stearns only on the condition that the government assume that...