We’ve got some friends over at the Mackinaw Valley Institute.

Here’s a rather satisfying screed on the baleful effects of Twitter. A taste:
If you haven’t gathered by now, I’m not a Twitter fan. In fact, I outright despise the inescapable microblogging service, which nudges its users to leave no…

Daniel Hannan (Member of the European Parliament for South-East England) sees the beginning of a localist revolution.
We’ve still got a very long way to go, of course. But give credit where it’s due. Governments hate giving away any jurisdiction.…

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Well, this is rather fascinating: here we have a video of the Austrian businessman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, who from 1997 until 2008 was CEO of Nestlé Group, one of the largest and most profitable corporations on…

Just a few hours ago Boston FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers held a press conference in that city to present two security camera films of what the government is calling suspects in the bombing of the Boston Marathon crowd on Patriot’s…

It seems if despotism came to be established in the democratic nations of our day…it would be more extensive and milder, and it would degrade men without tormenting them….I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve…

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
From what I can tell, most businesses, once they get to a certain size, cannot avoid be lured into the American conviction that you must expand or die. And, of course, the primary ways to…