It is difficult to express the extent to which our perceptions are engineered because it is pervasive and we have no baseline against which it may be measured.
Tag: Love Letters to Liberty
Posted inNews
Loaded issue of the Second Amendment
Any argument about guns is an argument about people, an argument about power and who holds it.
Posted inNews
Currency not worth its weight in gold
The nice thing about being a libertarian is that I have front-row tickets to the very best conspiracy theories.
Posted inColumns
Redefining ‘us’ and ‘them’
We humans can be huge jerks, and we’re getting better at it every day. Society, however cracked, provides a structure that encourages good behavior* and discourages the bad. Most of us would behave a bit worse if we knew we wouldn’t be caught or censored. Where the enforcement mechanisms of society are lower we reflect […]
Posted inColumns
The trouble with democracy today
Eric Baldwin is an electrical engineering senior and Mustang Daily libertarian columnist. Democracy comes in two flavors — direct and representative. Direct democracy takes place when enfranchised citizens vote on the issues and problems they face, while in a representative democracy the citizens select proxies for that task.
Posted inNews
Labor unions have the potential to spark debates
Eric Baldwin is an electrical engineering senior and Mustang Daily libertarian columnist.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Power and responsibility in government
I like the Spider-Man films (well, not the third one, but who does?) and have liked them since they came out. Bless my little heart, I liked the catch-phrase too: “With great power comes great responsibility.” It was inspiring to know that, at least in fiction, some right-hearted mutant was always on hand to fix […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Government should protect property rights
Say you own a llama ranch, but I decide how it is operated, how the money is spent and whether or not to sell the entire operation to the alpaca cartel down the street. Which of us really owns the llama ranch?
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Taking the fun out of obesity
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors made a bad decision — not by manipulating children, but by assuming that volition is less important than behavior.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Lessons about the Electoral College
Every four years we have a presidential election, and every presidential election at least one person complains bitterly about that barbaric anachronism, the Electoral College. And they’re always wrong.