Tag: the state
Democracy rewards those who lust for power.
March 20, 2017 | Post
The incentives politicians face reward the concentration and consolidation of power.
Why don’t humans kill each other like we used to?
March 16, 2017 | Post
Pinker claims — but fails to prove — that early states significantly increased human welfare by reducing the rate of war death.
We need less politics and more private governance
January 26, 2017 | Post
One of the most important things we can do is really explain and understand how markets, not government intervention, are our best hope for an orderly and prosperous society.
Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Freedom?
October 3, 2016 | Post
To answer this question we must first learn the distinction between contemporary conceptions of freedom and “The Freedom of the Ancients.”
Should You Hire a Private Bodyguard?
March 18, 2016 | Post
Editor’s note: This blog post contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault. Reader’s discretion is advised. I lived in Erlangen, Germany for much of 2009, getting around on a bicycle. After the big April beer festival, the “Bergkirchweih,” my lock was cut and my bike was thrown down a hill and set on fire (it […]
The First Rule of Wing-Walking
January 25, 2016 | Post
Wing-walking was the practice of getting out of the cockpit of a biplane (while someone else was flying the thing) and staggering along the wing holding onto struts or wires. It was a thrill show for onlookers at air shows and barnstorming events in the 1920s and 1930s in the U.S. But for the wing-walker […]