Catalonia Goes To The Polls
Spain The Spanish state of Catalonia is holding elections on Sunday which are expected to return a strong pro-independence majority in the Catalan regional parliament: […]
Economy
Slavery Myths: Life Expectancy
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the […]
Slavery Myths: Refuting Hinton Helper
American South Here’s an excellent excerpt from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery which eviscerates the economic argument for the abolition of […]
The Modernization of Slavery
CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use […]
Slavery: Demolishing The Yankee Stereotypes
Confederate States of America My copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery arrived this morning. […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Mighty Experiment
Great Britain Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation is an attempt to understand the abolition of slavery in the […]
Caribbean Project: Free Labor Jamaica vs. Slave Labor Cuba
British West Indies In Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, we saw how the abolition of slavery in Haiti (1794) […]
Linder on Slavery
VNN Forum Alex Linder writes: “It’s one thing to make intellectual arguments for slavery, that’s worth doing for a number of reasons, but it is […]
The Province of Freedom: Free Labor vs. Slave Labor in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone As Stephen Drescher observes in The Mighty Experiment, the total failure of free society in Sierra Leone, a free labor colony in West […]
Caribbean Project: Adam Smith, Free Labor, Slavery
British West Indies This is getting good. If the free labor system was so superior to slavery, as Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of […]
Outsourcing Is America At Its Best
Forbes I knew this guy sounded familiar … scanning my bookshelf, I spotted his name on a copy of The Ayn Rand Lexicon. “Mitt Romney […]
The Cost of the Union: Obamacare: Healthcare for Blacks and Hispanics
District of Corruption The Obama administration is not even trying to hide the fact that it is taxing White households to spend money on healthcare […]
Amurrica Series: Obama Creating African-American Education Office
District of Corruption I hear it will tentatively be titled … The Mentally Retarded Education Department. “WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is creating a […]
Straight Outta Compton
California Maybe they will rap about bankruptcy now? “COMPTON (CBS) — The city of Compton is reportedly facing bankruptcy following an announcement at a City […]
Romney’s Chance to Embrace Outsourcing
National Review Here’s the latest from the VIPs (Valuable Intellectual Properties) over at National Review: “There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Milton Friedman was […]
Recession Anxiety
BRA’s Economy BRA’s Recovery looks increasingly poised to keel over and take the plunge into a double dip recession.
Limits To Growth: California’s Dysfunctional Political System
California H/T Walter Russell Mead While there are geological limits to growth (such as Peak Water in Saudi Arabia), OD has always been fascinated by […]
Limits To Growth: Neo-Slavery
Malthusian World As I mentioned in the comments, Richard Heinberg speculates that slavery might be restored in his book Peak Everything: “In the U.S., as […]
Limits To Growth: 3 Trillion Barrels of Oil
Canada How do you know American policymakers are asleep at the helm on the energy question? “While the chattering classes yammered on about American decline […]
Limits To Growth: Mining Asteroids
New York In The Wall Street Journal, there is a new techno-utopian article about mining asteroids as a solution to resource scarcity: “Is the earth […]
Limits To Growth: Review: Too Much Magic
New York I’ve finished reading James Howard Kunstler’s new book Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. This book is pretty […]
“Up With Chris Hayes”
New York In spite of all our differences, I am confident that everyone who reads and comments on this website can agree on how satisfying […]
The Export Crisis
BRA IMO, this will be much more effective than state based immigration laws anyway. We have already seen that the biggest deterrent to illegal immigration […]
The 2008 Economic Collapse
BRA Here’s an excerpt from Kunstler’s new book: “It was not a coincidence that the global financial system wobbled and crashed in mid-2008, the same […]
Prophets of Doom
History Channel Kunstler mentioned that he appeared on this program in the book. I haven’t seen this before. Watching now. Note: The water crisis is […]
Kunstler’s New Book
Africa Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation … I’ve been reading a Kindle sample, and this is some dark […]
Free Trade: Vox Day vs. Gary North
United States The best debate going on at the moment: “To address North’s conceptual problem, a man with a badge and a gun and a […]
Buchanan on South Korea Free Trade Agreement
United States H/T Vox We had several discussions about this last year when Obama signed into law three new trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia, […]
Scaling the Blue Wall
Blue Wall White working class voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have it within their power to sink Obama: “For much of the presidential campaign, […]
California Perestroika
California In his latest Forbes column, Joel Kotkin takes a journey into the great progressive paradise on the West Coast: “California’s “progressive” approach has been […]
Tales From Detroit: The D Could Go Broke In a Week
Michigan Paul Kersey’s Escape From Detroit was written in anticipation of the financial collapse of Detroit which should have happened in April. The can was […]