Sitemap - 2013 - David Friedman’s Substack

"Most Admired"—Interpreting Statistics

A Chinese Double Standard

More on RSA/NSA

Sharia: Constitutional (1). Fiqh: Constitutional (2)

Evaluating Controversial Claims

Is RSA Liable to Damages for Fraud?

Science Has Almost Caught Up with Science Fiction

Deducing the Past: The Maya as an Example

Will the Obamacare Mess Hurt Hillary?

My Mac Lied To Me

For Cold Weather: A Recipe

Symbolic Thrift

Electric Blue Book: An Open Source Proposal

Lying for a Good Cause

Legal Insurance as a Commitment Strategy: A Solution to the Patent Troll Problem

The Rush to Judgement

Obama, Silicon Valley, and Learning by Testing

The Second Amendment in the 21st Century

The Killer App for Google Glass

What Should Replace Obamacare

Multitasking or Parallel vs Serial Thinking

Nonconforming ≠ Substandard

More on Selective Enforcement as Legislation

Selective Enforcement as Legislation

How to Run a Restaurant

How to Admit Students to College

How to Buy a House

How Bar Passage Rates Should Be Reported

Did Rand Get Obama Right?

Consequences of the Failure of Obamacare

Defining Austrian Economics

Iran's Nuclear Program and the Political Time Horizon

What—or Who—Matters

My Travel Plans: DC and China

Something Different

For Anyone Who Would Like to Hear Much More of Me

A Matter of Priorities

Social Security and the Debt Limit

Singapore, China, and the 21st Century

When I Was Much Younger

More on Debt Limit and Default

Two Modest Proposals

The Debt Limit and Default

Atheism and Morality: A Response To Dennis Prager

A Kipling Question

Authenticity, Status and SCA Culture

Pachauri Confuses Levels With Rates of Change

A Belated Reply to Brad DeLong

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Humans are Better Than Computers at ...

Who are the Alawites?

Economics: Ideas vs Politics

Obama's Way Out

An Expert Account of What NSA Can Do and How to Protect Yourself

A Record for the University of Virginia?

Legal Consequences of NSA et. al.?

Ignorance, Rhetoric, or Am I Missing Something?

Authenticity in Historical Recreation

The Correlation Between Intellect and Pulchritude

Debates Old and New

A Bilateral Hostage via Bitcoin

Diamonds, Advertising, DeBeers and Sex

Faking It

Creeping Mundanity at Pennsic

My Porcfest Talks

The Malthusian Tipping Point

The Puzzle of the Other Hockey Stick

Medievalism Plus High Tech

My Retro Site

The Zimmerman Case

Laws, Norms and Shopping Carts

James Clapper and the Issue of Selective Prosecution

Every Phone in America?

A Great Quote on Irish Law

What Went Wrong with Islamic Law?

The King's Friends

Gay Marriage and The Obligations of Contracts

How Anonymous is Bitcoin?

Gaming Islamic Tax

Is Islamic Law Law?

What is the Default Afterlife?

A Gift that Keeps on Giving

Vinge, Heinlein the Sagas and Me

Wael Hallaq 0/Francis Galton 2

Art and Wine Festivals and Art

James Hanson Gets it Partly Right

How Strongly do Believers Believe: Historical Evidence

Utilitarianism

Hard Line Natural Rights: Alternatives To

What's Wrong With Mushy?

Jason Brennan Defends, I Reply

Ted Nelson Thinks He Has Identified the Creator of Bitcoin

A Different Sort of Bullying

A Question for Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Sometimes the Good Guys Win

Cartoon Libertarians, Social Justice, and Bleeding Hearts

Benghazi and Intra-Party Politics

The Binding Constraint on Book Length

A Positive Health Effect From Smoking

A Defense of Traditional Islamic Law

Seduction to Matrimony—from PUA to Red Pill

The Greatest Post Ever Written?

The Economics of SF Fandom

More Notes on Muslim Law and Misreading Thereof

The Importance of Right Makes Might

"Obesity and Rising Incomes:" A Blogging Puzzle

Faith vs Reason: Mutazilites, Ash'arites, et multae Caetera

From Imperial China to West Virginia

Student Teacher Assymetry

Bad for Us, Bad for You, Bad: Different Justifications for Restricting People

Time Inconsistency and the Welfare State

Which Side Are You On? Robert Wolff, Murray Rothbard, and Me

My Talk Tomorrow

How to Lie With Statistics: A Recent Example

Obama on Thatcher

Global Warming: Implications of the Current Data

Why Landsburg's Puzzle Is Interesting

Frightening Ideas

Response to Bork and Landsburg

"Feud" v "Feudal": Sound is not Meaning

The Economics of Finding a Wife

Landsburg v Bork: What Counts as Injury?

Mann v. Hansen: They Aren't All the Same

Patent Litigation Seen as a Feud System of Law Enforcement

Academic Orthodoxy: Official Lies

Should I Be Mad at Scribd?

Diversity and Academic Open Mindedness

Could You Make a Living from RPG's?

Does Easy Sell?

The Kind of Teaching I Like to Do

Nutrition, Obesity, Cost

The Scary Thing About Having Kids

Official Scientific Truth

Global Warming: Economists' Views

Ideological Betrayal, Left and Right

On the East Coast in April

For those who like listening to me

A Note on Economic Methodology

The Other Half of the Global Warming Problem

How to Spend a Million Dollars to Promote Liberty

Could a Bare Bones Law School Succeed?

Blowing Second-Hand Smoke

Silent Speech as a Keyboard Alternative

False Positives

Why Does Anyone Fly Business Class?

My Europe Trip: Final Thoughts

Heathrow Notes

Overcharging: The Aaron Swartz Case

European Notes: The Milan Taxi Industry

European Notes: The Obesity Gap

My Europe Trip

Thank you, Jim

How to Jump-Start a Third Party

Framing Gay Marriage

Weight Propaganda