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Bueno de Mesquita (my new hero), Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow, in their highly cynical book The Logic of Political Survival, state that when referring to categories of regime (and all other organisations, in fact) we should consider two institutional dimensions: The...

EconLog & GMU's Bryan Caplan asks an interesting question: Ron Paul is highly unlikely to be the next president. But could he become the Republicans' Nader? Suppose after being knocked out of the primaries, Paul runs on the Libertarian Party ticket. He's got a big war chest, and enthusiastic...

Well, that was pretty weird. To be honest, after reading Zhao's post, I was certain that I never wanted to write anything here again. I mean, if people are going to compare you to a child rapist simply for advancing political and economic arguments, what's the point? I'm not sure at all...

Man who had sex with bike in court Robert Stewart was discovered in his room by two cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, south west Scotland, in October last year. On Wednesday Mr Stewart admitted to sexual breach of the peace in Ayr Sheriff Court, where depute fiscal Gail Davidson...

Why Israel Since I am ruining HundredMillionLifeTimes’ cosy fun in the “Boycott Israeli Universities” thread, by asking why he focuses so heavily on Israel to the exclusion of all else (or so it seems), I thought I would take this question to a new thread to try to explore it in greater depth...

Theme Time Radio Hour - with your host, Bob Dylan... Is anyone else listening to this? It's very, very good.

The CIA has just released its legendary "family jewels", a series of documents that "catalog domestic wiretapping operations, failed assassination plots, mind-control experiments and spying on journalists from the early years of the C.I.A." Mark Mazzetti and Tim Weiner, writing in the New York...

Since there seemed to be so much opposition to globalisation in the "Occupying the moral high ground" thread, I thought I would post something giving the liberal, pro-capitalist view of globalisation. This is from George Reisman's classic study, Globalization: the Long-Run Big Picture...

How do they do it, eh? This is an absolutely hilarious interview with the editor of al Guardian, Alan Rushbridger. Piers Morgan goes on about the tabloid/broadsheet thing too much (obviously got a chip on his shoulder), but the real gold is when he gets on to executive pay. Just watch...

Just don't, that's my advice.

I'm optimistic. Any thoughts? http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/0,,681877,00.html

Future War Democracies don’t like war. They are squeamish about casualties and in the modern world, with its globalised news organisations, the internet and near instantaneous communication, when they go to war they see a lot of casualties. Jihadists understand this and have devised their...