Madsen Pirie's latest video is about mass production, but I want to talk about mass distribution. The first of his series, released just over a week ago, has, according to YouTube, been viewed 9,493 times. That seems quite encouraging, especially when you look at the viewing figures of some of Britain's public-service television. According to The Telegraph last year: "S4C, which gets mor...

"More people have heard of Tom Cruise than Ben Bernanke, but that doesn’t mean that Bernanke hasn’t had a bigger impact on their life." Matt Zwolinski, a blogger at the recently expanded "Bleeding Heart Libertarian" group blog. He's writing about the benefits and costs of intellectual versus political activism, as relating to Ron Paul. The failure of Tom Cruise to influenc...

"Well, I didn't watch the State of the Union, but I did fix the dishwasher, and teach a fairly decent class on the non-delegation doctrine, and edit some page proofs of a forthcoming law review article. So it was a pretty good day." Glenn Reynolds. In my case, being a Londoner, yesterday, I attended an excellent Institute of Economic Affairs talk by "Bleeding Heart Libertarian", got a plumber...

Is this video the 21st century version of a photocopied 1980s Libertarian Alliance pamphlet? It contains Madsen Pirie explaining an economics concept in under three minutes. He tells me that he is going to do 20 videos, one a week. Strangely, outside of lectures held by the ASI and IEA, there isn't much video coming out of the UK libertarian scene. Over in the States, all sorts of organisatio...

Mr. Sachs here performs the equivalent of, say, accusing someone who advocates sobriety of thereby being indifferent to other values such parental responsibility, financial prudence, and neighborliness. But just as being sober in no way precludes – and likely promotes – other values such as parental responsibility, being a libertarian in no way precludes any of the values and c...

It is common to use two political spectrums to sort out where people or parties sit ideologically: the left-right spectrum and the authoritarian-libertarian spectrum. The latter is important in explaining the politics of the coalition’s formation, as it was a defence of civil liberties against New Labour’s post-9/11 authoritarian streak that both saw senior figures

This video makes for hilarious - if frustrating - viewing. Leading Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum ludicrously posits that left-wingers in America are massive advocates for too much freedom...and cites this as a problem. Richard Nikoley sums up the vile Santorum thusly: [L]eave it to far-right, fundamentally religious Christians to come full circle, meeting up with commiesâ€...

Libertarian Texan must do more if he is to be considered as a serious contender for the Republican nomination to run for the presidency

Now there's going to be trouble - the govt want to take away Father Jack's bottle ( and everyone else's ). So the inevitable bun fight between the libertarians and the modernisers on the centre right has started. Normally I lean to the libertarian side of the argument and away from the dark road to soclialism that regulation and restrictions bring. But there's no denying we hav...

The 76-year-old libertarian-leaning contender faces a deluge of criticism as Republican rivals attempt to whittle down his poll lead