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Introducing Prometheus Unbound
My name is Geoffrey Allan Plauché. I’m a philosopher and an academic. I decided to launch a libertarian review of fiction and literature as a sort of online “magazine” because I’m not aware of any...
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The Perils of Centralized Innovation
Gizmodo has an interesting post about How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years. It is an excerpt from The Master Switch by Tim Wu. Here is the money quote: This is the essential weakness of a...
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Francis Ford Coppola, Copyfighter
In an interview with The 99% — Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration — Coppola offers some very insightful and sensible remarks about creativity, copyright, the role of...
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BOOK REVIEW | Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1: The Complete and...
Good things come to those who wait, the old adage goes, and the world has waited a century for Mark Twain’s autobiography, which, in Twain’s words, is a “complete and purposed jumble.” But this 760...
View ArticleTHE LIBERTARIAN TRADITION PODCAST | Libertarian Science Fiction II
When I wasn’t paying attention Jeff Riggenbach did two more audio podcasts on libertarianism and science fiction in his series for the Mises Institute, The Libertarian Tradition. Here is one, a...
View ArticleWHAT IF | Hayek and Keynes could debate the current financial crisis…in verse?
It might be something like this fantastic new rap video produced by John Papola and Russ Roberts as part of their EconStories.tv project, “Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two“: One of...
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ARTICLE | Uchronia, or Alternative History
Dr. Uchronia The history that didn’t happen can be just as interesting as the history that did. This article is a small example of its own topic. Except by chance, I wouldn’t now be writing it. Not...
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MOVIE REVIEW | J. Edgar: Power, Both Pathetic and Terrifying
J. Edgar, the new film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is making the news for dealing frankly with the decades old rumors concerning Hoover’s private life. But that’s not...
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NEWS | Gregory Benford in Reason Magazine on Science Fiction in Light of...
There’s an article by science fiction author Gregory Benford in the February issue of Reason Magazine (also available online at Reason.com). I hadn’t realized it, but Benford has written three other...
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NEWS | David Brin, Wrong Again
Can I look any more smug. Can I. David Brin Oops, he did it again. David Brin, whom some think of as a libertarian science fiction author, and who styles himself as such, but who really isn’t even...
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