That’s one of the most enjoyable duties of teaching political science. The link is to my response to a thoroughly libertarian critique—rooted in the freedom to err—of the ‘libertarian paternalism” of “behavioral economics.” It also leads you to the Liberty Fund LAW AND LIBERTY website—which is, thanks to our friend Richard Reinsch, really good and surprisingly fair and balanced.
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…