April 26, 2013 – 10:30 am
The term that is. There seem to be few usages that are a greater barrier to clear thought and debate than free markets. Whether used as a term of sneering abuse to create straw-person arguments or as a slogan of the right and proper, it is ready-made to close minds and abstract away from the issues [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, History, Law, Marriage, Middle east, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Racism, Sexuality, Taxation
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Tagged American Revolution, Arnold Kling, banking, barriers to entry, building design, Cato Institute, Clarence Thomas, David Boaz, Debt, discretion, discrimination, economic freedom, Equity, free markets, gains from trade, German Constitution, house design, Latin America, liability, logical fallacy, Political donations, rules v discretion, social mercantilism, time inconsistency, too big to fail, transaction costs, Wells Fargo, zoning laws
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I am deeply sceptical about any legal recognition of Sharia on two grounds. First, it is profoundly misogynist, starting with the discounting of evidence from women. Second, it evolved as an imperial legal system. It does not claim to be a legal system for only the faithful, as Jewish law does, but God’s law, applying [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, England, History, Law, Marriage, Public Policy, Wales
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Tagged 1996 Arbitration Act, bequests, bride-price, Catholic doctrine, Divorce, domestic violence, dower, dowries, Dr Rowan Williams, established church, family law, Gary Becker, groom-price, homicide rates, inheritance, Islamic Sharia Council, Jewish law, mahr, monogamy, Muslim law (Shariah) Council, Orthodox doctrine, patrilocal, polygyny, pre-nuptial agreements, Religious courts, Roman law, sacrament, Sharia, Sharia Tribunals, wife-beating
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…And not people for the laws. First, an apology for my lengthy absence. I have discovered that working and studying at the same time is difficult, so much so that I have resolved never to combine the two again. However, the study has now finished, and even better, I have a month to prepare for [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Law, Marriage, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Skeptics
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Tagged #equalmarriage, Cato Institute, Foundation for Economic Education, Hollingsworth, James Peron, Liberty Fund, Moorfield Storey Institute, Proposition 8, Reason Foundation, Sarah Skwire, SCOTUSblog, Steven Horwitz, Tom G. Palmer, Windsor
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Three priests and a former priest have said that they felt “vindicated” after Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien admitted sexual misconduct. The group had accused the senior Roman Catholic clergyman of “inappropriate behaviour” towards them in the 1980s. Catherine Deveney, the journalist who broke the story in The Observer, said she had spoken to the four [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Popular culture, scotland, Sexuality, Society
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Tagged archbishop of glasgow, archbishop of st andrews and edinburgh, cardinal keith o'brien, cardinal tartaglia, homosexuality, Roman Catholic Church
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February 19, 2013 – 9:15 am
In a his excellent The World Is Not Enough blog, Charles Richardson comments on an essay by Israeli journalist Yossi Gurvitz. Gurvitz’s essay applies the analogy of Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, Silesia, Prussia etc after 1945 to the Palestinians expelled from Israel in 1947-48. As Charles notes, it is a revealing analogy. But revealing not [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Human/Civil rights, Immigration, Middle east, Politics, Public Policy, The Left, The Right
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Tagged Algerian Civil War, Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Armenian Genocide, Auschwitz, Charles Richardson, Christian exodus, debt bondage, EU, Fascism, Greece, Haj Amin al Husseini, Hamidian massacres, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, Israeli Labour movement, Lebanese Civil War, Leninism, Likud, Nazism, population exchange, refugees, scapegoat, Shin Bet, Sudanese Civil Wars, Syrian civil war, the holocaust, Turkey, Yossi Gurvitz
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February 12, 2013 – 9:01 pm
Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church, saying he is too old to continue at the age of 85. The unexpected development – the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years – surprised governments, Vatican-watchers and even his closest [...]
January 10, 2013 – 9:30 am
The further back you can look, the further forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill. With the release of the first film of The Hobbit trilogy, An Unexpected Journey, the blogosphere is rife with Middle Earth allusions. My favourite is Frances Woolley’s wonderful post (with some great comments) The Macroeconomics of Middle Earth, though [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Blogging, Economics, England, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Marriage, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Sexuality, Society, Technology, Welfare
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Tagged Andy Warhol, consanguinity, deepak Lal, Distributism, Eric Crampton, Fascism, films, Frances Woolley, Industrialisation, J R R Tolkien, Kingdom of Wessex, luxury good, Matthew Akers, Morton, Niall Ferguson, Pope Gregory, Scott Sumner, Winston Churchill, world war one
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January 8, 2013 – 9:30 am
The always worth reading Prof. Gene Callahan recently posted – citing Jared Diamond’s example of warfare among the Dani of New Guinea — that violence is rooted in human nature, not the state. Prof. Callahan observes: The problem isn’t the State: the problem is human beings. And the problem with admitting that problem is you’re not left [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Defence, Drugs, Economics, History, Law, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Technology
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Tagged democide, Gene Callahan, gun control, homicide rates, Jared Diamond, Leninism, monopoly, Nazism, paradox of politics, paradox of rulership, R J Rummel, Somalia, Steve Sailor, steven pinker, violence, war on drugs
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November 24, 2012 – 9:30 am
One of the more surprising entries to the calendar business is a sexy priests calendar. The declared celibates pictured are samples of what has been on offer, so to speak. We do live in surprising times. Though it does make you wonder about Catholic families steering gay sons into the priesthood. Gay Irish writer Colm Toibin [...]
