The FDA

Take it away Yaron

Latest Yaron Brook lecture

Good stuff.

Gloom

John Derbyshire makes a good point:

That’s economics for you—and economists, and The Economist. The world of their imagination is a cool, well-lit world in which thoughtful human beings, responding to rational incentives, move along paths defined by elegant mathematical formulas. It is a shadow world, a dream of perfection. It resembles, but only as shadows resemble objects, the grimy, gamy, half-mad world of actual humanity—the substance of human affairs.

  That is why Capitalism is impossible without Objectivism.

Bill Maher talking capitalist sense

This is almost too perfect.  This is what Objectivists have been saying for six decades or so.

Sam Harris on the moral landscape

His point about criticism of Islam being left to our own religious lunatics (or worse) never stops being relevant.  I just wish he'd realize that the business of formulating an objective, universal code of ethics has already been done.

Takes on Sarah Palin

I agree with pretty much all of these.