Agoraphilia

This year's Liberty & Society seminar at Pitzer College saw a first: A blog set up by and for the students. It's called Cafe L...

Although the 2005 Pitzer Liberty & Society Seminar ended over a week ago, I'm still catching up on my posts about it. Call it not ...

We're about to head into our last session, which is a faculty roundtable discussion of the tough issues and challenges facing libertaria...

Tom suggests that couples in romantic relationships would be wise to adopt explicit, or at least quasi-explicit, contracts specifying what a...

Our final formal lecture of the week is Tom Bell talking about "Living Lives that Respect Liberty." Tom's theme is whether ...

Well James is at it again. His final talk is on "The Market for Transplantable Human Organs." He's distinguished among "c...

A seminar participant, Heloise Robinson, who is familiar with the burgeoning “happiness” literature, told me something a couple of days ago ...

Last night, during the Q & A after the showing of the "1900 House", Steve Horwitz made a point that had never ocurred to me be...

In a previous lecture , Steve Horwitz took on a single economic myth – namely, that the Great Depression was a monumental failure of capital...

This morning's first talk is Steve Davies on "Are We Still Living in Western Civilization?" And what he means by that is that ...

Almost every evening at this L&S seminar, in the span between the last presentation and the start of the evening social, we gather in di...

I haven't been blog-slacking, really. I've been busy responding to the many, many comments to my post on the Kelo Amendment. Todd...

Glen has moved from J-Lo's butt to a much less tasteful example for a point about insurance. Suffice it to say, the sodomy theme begun b...

Only Glen could use J-Lo's butt as an example for a lecture on the economics of risk.

Steve Davies is currently working his way through a very informative history of the individualist feminism of the 19th and early 20th centur...

Let me just add one point to James' last post, with which I'm in agreement: deconstructionists also argue that the meaning of words ...

Tom's just briefly criticized deconstruction in response to a student question. Tom claimed that deconstructionists believe that words h...

Tom, in his lecture on “Reading, Writing, and Respecting a Constitution,” is talking about the infamous Kelo decision. Here’s the relevant...

…There hasn’t been much L&S blogging today because we had the afternoon off. Most people spent the time playing at the beach or sightse...

The Stossel video we saw last night raised a couple of issues for me which I think it ignored and libertarians generally ignore as well. He ...