July 2004

A Liberal Power Trip: Real Capitalism at the Movies

Michael Giberson A documentary on the media, Orwell Rolls Over in his Grave, opens today in the Washington, D.C., area, reminding me of the recent newspaper story in the Washington Post about the dominance of left-leaning view points in documentary movies (“Liberal Documentarians Are the Reel Majority“). The newspaper article by Tommy Nguyen asks why, …

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Network Reliability As A Public Good, And What To Do About It

The ideas that have captured my attention recently (such as government funding of culture) have a central theme: the extent to which something is a public good, and what those public good characteristics imply for public policy. If a good (or service) has public good characteristics, does that fact necessarily imply that its provision should …

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The Homestead

Well … the move-in occurred Monday. Painless, really; much less arduous than moving out of the 4th-floor walkup condo. But the place is in total disarray, the DSL line hasn’t been installed yet, and I spent most of Tuesday making the bathroom functional, although we haven’t installed the medicine cabinet yet and my husband had …

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Michael Dealessi On Overfishing

And while you’re at the Fraser Forum, also check out Michael DeAlessi’s article on using property rights to combat overfishing. Using property rights to address overfishing is a much-covered topic here at KP, and Michael’s new article adds to the already voluminous evidence that property rights over natural resources produce superior outcomes.