Far from replacing newspapers and magazines, the best blogs – and the best are very clever – have become guides to them, pointing to unusual sources and commenting on familiar ones. They have become new mediators for the informed public. Although the creators of blogs think of themselves as radical democrats, they are a new Tocquevillean elite. Much of the web has moved in this direction because the wilder, bigger, and more chaotic it becomes, the more people will need help navigating it
– Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom
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February 17th, 2004 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Of course I have sensitivity, you know… I just refuse to use it with my friends February 14th, 2004 | Comments are closed
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? February 13th, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn’t be called piracy because it was done by the city government. February 11th, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
February 8th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Yes, of course you socialists are more concerned about the poor… your policies create so many of them! February 6th, 2004 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
All the ‘idiotarians‘, Left and Right, both subscribe to the same fallacy: violence is the greatest evil, the state has a monopoly of violence, the USA is the most powerful state, therefore the USA is the home of evil, and all evil events have their roots in USA policy. The idiotarians stand to the responsible anti-statists (such as our host) as the Ku Klux Klan stood to the sensible American patriots. They are what happens when a principled objection to force hardens into a reflexive aversion. They end up condoning the worst crimes a state can commit, provided the state in question is not their own, and if the alternative is inflicting violence themselves. February 2nd, 2004 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
State funding of abortions is, however, a completely different matter. The pro-choicers say it’s a matter of choice. Let it stay that way, then, without forcing people who oppose infanticide to fund it. January 30th, 2004 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
“God made the 20th Century to teach us that the notion that things work better when experts plan them is a fallacy. It’s a pity that a hundred-million or so had to die to illustrate the lesson. But now we got it. Right?” January 29th, 2004 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)
He’s a shark in wolf’s clothing! (I’d love to tell you the context… but alas I dare not) January 28th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
There are two possible political morals to this. One is, don’t have schools. Children in large groups behave like troops of baboons. The other is, if you are going to have schools, have discipline. January 15th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
I’m not really all that interested in what Hollywood does with its stuff. I mean, they’re only the size of the porn industry. I think the real revolution is in industrial production. It’s about manipulating factory processes, it’s about mass customization, it’s about a revolution in industry that gets the toxins out of the air and is more efficient by, say, a factor of four than what we had. When that happens we’ll have a genuinely new world. Playing movies off handhelds, that’s not really that big of a deal. – Bruce Sterling, interviewed in Reason. (Link via slashdot). January 6th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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