Sitemap - 2011 - David Friedman’s Substack

Shoes: A Modest Proposal

It's All in How You Say It

George Orwell, Dishonest Rhetoric, and the Libertarian Movement

Thinking Fast and Slow

Great Comment on Someone Else's Blog

Who Profits from the Recession?

David Brin and Adam Smith

The Price of Money

How to Destroy the Publishing Industry: Take Three

Fracking and Earthquakes: Bug or Feature?

International Healthcare Comparisons

Reason Magazine, Sarah Palin, and the Huffington Post

The Evolution of the Camera

Celtic Wanderings?

Drones, Geneva Convention, and Other Ambiguous Goods

How to Lie With Statistics: Tax Rates

Are the Amish Anarchists?

Mormons, Fundamentalists, and Critics

Random Thoughts on Education

Donating to Both Sides: A Research Proposal

Should We Hope for a Republican Sweep?

Could There Be a European War?

3D printing of clothing

D. Friedman vs D. Brin

What's Wrong With Gestational Surrogacy?

Have I Been Tuckerized?

Religion, Law, and Sex

A Puzzle, a Solution, and Why It Cannot be Right. Maybe.

What is Wrong with Global Warming Anyway?

Arctic Ice: Prediction That Isn't

What the Tea Party Gets Wrong

Capital Gains Taxation: Contra Landsburg

The Syrian Bodycount Puzzle

Probability of U.S. Default

Reality Based Community?

The Cost of Healthy Eating: Incompetence or Fraud

Obama and Taxes: If the Truth is Too Complicated ...

Schooling Compulsion, Incentives, and Literacy

What Would Modern Polygamy Be Like?

The Real News

GKC, Liberal Toleration, and the FLDS

Should King David and Solomon be in Jail?

Thoughts on the Debt Limit Controversy

Debt Limit as Incentive: A Modest Proposal

(Almost) Free Medical Advice

Austrian Fantasy

For Mac Fans in a Hurry: An Idea

Norway and 9/11: Fighting the Last War

Playing with Kids: Asymmetrical Games?

Does Obama Have a $2.7 Trillion Get Out Of Jail Free Card?

Two cheers for the Huffington Post

WoW in Realspace, a Software Suggestion

Social Security, the Debt Ceiling, and Obama

Gang of Six Plan: Right Answer or Smoke and Mirrors?

Murdoch Musings

Mailforge v Eudora

Murdoch, Media, Cops and Politics

Witch or Saint: A Story Seed

In Search of Bogus History

The Fall of the House of Murdoch

Bogus Links

OS Time Machine: A Modest Proposal

Chinese Sulfur and Global Warming

The Death of Copyright: One Observed Solution

Stranger in a Strange Land: Fifty Years After

Asset Sales: A Third Option

SF and Alternative Economies

What is FaceBook Good For?: Part II

Blog to Book, an Open Source Project

A Possible Budget Compromise

The Blog, Considered as Book

"The Sorcerer" Considered as a Political Statement

Textbooks that are Fun to Read

One Cheer for Islam

What is FaceBook Good For?

Forced Speech

If I were a conservative congressman ...

Concerning Michelle Bachmann

Turkey and the Arab Spring

Sovereign Default and Future Borrowing: A Query

Pot Puffing Politicians: A Moral Issue

Thoughts on Huntsman

Caplan Contra Krugman: A Very Clever Post

Puzzles of the Linked Web

Some POD Details

Thoughts on the Economics of Self-Publishing

Bitcoins Considered as Virtual Gold

Lessons from Writing My First Novels

Murray Rothbard on Me and Vice Versa

Estimating Blog Traffic

How to Milk an Almond, ... is now available

Argument Against Interest: The Left and Palin

Media Bias and the Perceived Intelligence of Politicians

Looking for an honest man: The Palin/Revere flap

Current Experiments in Self Publishing

Learning from Evidence: Not

Salt, Fish Oil, and the Implications of Optimization

Orwell: Two minus, one plus

Does Someone at Sony Read this Blog?

Spain: Orwell's Mistake

U.S. Military Expenditure: The Power of Factoids

How Real is Religious Belief: Three Cases

Sustainability: Empty Rhetoric or a Bad Idea?

Orwell on Kipling, A Critique

Nicholas Kristof Gets His History Backwards

In Praise of the Turks

Misrepresenting Adam Smith

George Orwell v Frank Richards

How to Eliminate the Publishing Industry: Take Two

Munich 2011: Libya and Bahrain

"Deep Spending Cuts"

Interesting Piece on Assange

Are City People Rude?

I Will Be Speaking in New York This Thursday and Friday

Teasing out the Truth

My Midterm

Is Plagiarism Becoming Obsolete?

I Called It. Sort of.

Cutting the Budget: A Modest Proposal

Guns and Freedom: A Different Argument

Pad in My Pocket: The Two Screen Solution

What Should Mubarak Do?

Found: Case for my Macbook Air

The More Things Change ...

Beards, Razors, and History