Amol Kapila
While searching for an unrelated book on Amazon, I realized that after typing in the letters ‘at’, the first suggestion that came up was ‘atlas shrugged’. With ‘fou’, ‘fountainhead’ is the ninth suggestion. ‘ay’ yields ‘ayn rand’ as the first choice. ‘milt’ yields ‘milton friedman’ as #1.
This inspired me to try this on Google. ‘ay’ [...]
Amol Kapila
I have blogged in the past regarding the fact that what I care about is not policy successes, so much as more people becoming libertarians. (Read the comments in that post, too.). Poor policies, like those being billed as healthcare “reform”, are simply a symptom of an underlying problem, people having poor ideas regarding economics [...]
Amol Kapila
A few days ago, I posted in favor of a debt commission. I just wanted to clarify my views on the subject. My preference would be to phase out all entitlement benefits and impose stringent controls on the way Congress can appropriate money, but the former will definitely not happen, and the latter has a [...]
Amol Kapila
The Students for Liberty Annual Report for 2008-09 is out. I have a blurb on page 17:
Observing events at home and abroad, it is often easy to be discouraged both by the incompetence and corruption of our leadership and by the extent to which people look to government for solutions to their problems. But then [...]