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October 2012

October 31, 2012

Obamacare or Somalia

This comment by Jeremy Lott's Diary reader "Alex" amused me. I reproduce it here in...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Catogate Update–a Q&A

Q: Why dive back into the John Allison-Cato Insitute-Ayn Rand Institute story with a self...

September 15, 2012

Objectivist Humor–No, Really

This being my one and only day off, I thought I'd take a break from...

September 12, 2012

Who Would Ayn Rand Bomb?

Boy, it is not easy to make heads-or-tails of Ayn Rand and her devotees on...

September 10, 2012

New News on Catogate

Slate's Dave Weigel (my friend, etc., etc.) has scooped me on two points on the...

September 08, 2012

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Atlas Mugged?

Meant to follow up on the John Allison thing yesterday but I didn't for two...

August 30, 2012

BREAKING! John Allison’s Non-Denial Non-Denial

In a letter today sent out to all Cato scholars, soon-to-be president John Allison addressed...

August 30, 2012

Oceania Has Never Been at War With the Cato Institute

In the second excerpt of Deep Galt's communique, my source schools me on how Ayn...

August 29, 2012

Objectivism Shrugged?

"I think you're on to an interesting story. The whole John Allison-Cato thing has the...

August 27, 2012

How Objectionable Is John Allison’s Objectivism?

Well this is disturbing. In June I wrote a long and heavily trafficked blog post...

August 25, 2012

My Hugeness in Japan, Continued

Forgot to mention yesterday this Brad DeLong riff on my Rapegate comments. DeLong, an economist...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

Optimists, All Wet

"When you look at a glass of water, do you see it as half-empty or...

July 03, 2012

Banned on the Fourth of July

Show of hands: How many readers are really not looking forward to Independence Day this...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Ed Crane Has Left the Building

So it looks as though the Koch v. Cato struggle is drawing to an end....

June 07, 2012

Rules of Jeremytarianism & Co.

It occurs to me that I haven't yet posted the Rules of Jeremytarianism for my...

June 03, 2012

Fat, Females and Philosophy

"I wrote a whole paper about that question for a philosophy class," my colleague, the...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

So a Pessimist and a Fatalist Walk into a Bar…

They belly up. The pessimist says to the fatalist, "I'll buy this round. What're you...