Pot. Kettle.
Glenn Greenwald discusses governments spying on their own citizens:
It should go without saying that all of the sponsors of the pending bill to ban American companies from collaborating with domestic Internet spying in foreign countries — the inspirationally-named Global Online Freedom Act of 2009 — voted in favor of the 2008 bill to legalize what had [...]
Things Worth Reading
Bryan Caplan on Democratic Fundamentalism and The Baby Business.
A very cute way to make students pay attention: “it is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie”.
John Timmer wants to know Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science?
Violinist Joshua Bell plays the DC Metro. Or, rather, he did [...]
Women, Culture, and Ayn Rand
Via Ophelia Benson, I found a news article titled South Sudan: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission, which is mostly self-explanatory but still very much worth reading. I am reminded of what Alex Tabarrok said about Ayn Rand:
it’s no accident that Hillary Clinton was once an avid Randian (recall her political career started with Barry Goldwater) [...]
