2/28 Philosopher Roger Scruton asks: What would Immanuel Kant say about the Iraq war?
2/27 Robert Bidinotto on justice and utility: What is the purpose of criminal justice?
2/26 Friedrich von Blowhard on Mozart as an economic entrepreneur in the early days of capitalism as the feudal patronage system was dying.
2/25 A survey of college presidents asks: What books should every undergraduate read?
2/24 Steven den Beste on why Michael Moore’s new film is not an act of treason and why the free speech rights of Michael Moore, NAMBLA, and the KKK must be protected.
2/23 The Institute for Justice takes on government bureaucrats who want to decide who can and cannot sell flowers.
2/21 Politopia revises the political spectrum and has a fun quiz to determine your political philosophy.
2/20 Will Wilkinson on why libertarians must attend also to developing a culture’s moral infrastructrure.
2/19 Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore on how environmentalism has gone wrong.
2/18 Arnold Kling discusses a possible tension between freedom and responsibility in the academic world. Update: Psychology professor Robert Campbell responds to Kling.
2/17 The Foundation for Individual Rights is defending a college instructor who was fired for discussing the Iraq war in class.
2/16 Terry Eastland on recent efforts to crack down on human trafficking – the smuggling of human beings for slave labor and sex exploitation.
2/14 The Onion‘s poll: What do Americans really think about gay marriage? [Dead link.]
2/13 The Chronicle of Higher Education covers a new effort to combat biased college teaching.
2/11 Attorney William Watkins takes on the legality of slavery reparations suits.
2/10 An Italian physician proposes a controversial compromise solution to the problem of female genital mutilation.
2/9 Web logger Steven den Beste reflects on the robustness of the American political experiment.
2/8 Ludwig von Mises’s classic essay on envy and punitive taxation. (Thanks to Virginia for the link.)
2/7 Wendy McElroy takes on the vicious anti-male bias of “The Vagina Monologues”.
2/6 How to solve the killer shortage of transplant organs? Economist Alex Tabarrok suggests that we pay organ donors.
2/4 Reflecting on Mohamed Kamal Mustafa’s writings, journalist Tom Utley offers advice on how to beat your wife.
2/3 Journalist John Stossel’s top ten list of lies, myths and downright stupidity.
2/2 Web logger Andrew Sullivan on George Bush’s domestic nanny state.
2/1 An overview of genetic engineering issues.