Lynne Kiesling This week marks the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 15th anniversary. EFF is a tireless warrior for preserving and enhancing freedom as communication and information technology evolves. Cory Doctorow has a Boing Boing post discussing EFF’s activities over the past 15 years: This week marks the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 15th anniversary — a decade and …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve enjoyed James’s affair with Flossie for years, and am glad to see there’s finally public photographic evidence. Seriously, if you are interested in learning more about John Stuart Mill’s harm principle, go read the post.
Lynne Kiesling A good way to kick off the Independence Day holiday is to have a philosohper, Aeon Skoble, give an introductory talk on rights. So yes, geeky as it sounds, I’m liveblogging it. What are rights? We talk about two categories of rights, positive and negative. Positive rights: claims to some good or action, …
Lynne Kiesling The KP Spouse just very kindly dropped me at the airport to go to Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to teach at the Foundations of Liberty workshop sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. I love doing this. More news as it happens. In thinking about the upcoming week I am reminded of this excellent …
Lynne Kiesling New, fresh voices rock, especially when they are saying good things in compelling and interesting ways. Such is the case with Liberty Belles, five classical liberal women with sharp wits and intellects. One post to illustrate the eloquence, from Clara on gay marriage: I favor allowing people to draw up these contracts, but …
Lynne Kiesling Lest you think that I’ve become a one-trick pony and can think of nothing else except Kelo, I offer this justification for my attention to it: this is such a big deal that even people who don’t normally pay attention to such things are paying attention and are outraged. All sorts of people …
Lynne Kiesling One of the focal discussion topics at the Center for Advancement of Energy Markets convention was how to articulate the benefits of competition. Competition has been absent from the electricity industry since 1907, when the first states established public utility commissions and began granting monopolies to utilities in retorn for their obligation to …
Lynne Kiesling I don’t read Left2Right, largely because I don’t like politics. But this post from Elizabeth Anderson about Hayek’s arguments for procedural rules for public support to those who cannot “play the game” is insightful and thought-provoking. Many of the comments are also worth reading, in particular the one from economist Steve Horowitz. Hat …
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Michael Giberson The Supreme Court decision on interstate wine shipments (see Lynne’s comment for links) is a big win for interstate commerce, a boon to wine consumers, and a boost to boutique wineries across the country. Producers and consumers should celebrate tonight by popping the cork on their favorite sparkling wine. And may I suggest …
Lynne Kiesling Last week while I was in nose-to-grindstone mode (and traveling too), Russ Roberts had a very nice post on the difficulties of the word “spontaneous” in “spontaneous order”, and in general the challenge that we dynamic, forward-looking, spontaneous order folks have in communicating our ideas clearly and persuasively. Like Russ, I have changed …
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