The climate is changing

The climate is changing (via The New Clarion). And the change is certainly induced by humans. (I couldn’t resist the pun but it is not funny at all)
A couple of weeks ago I talked to the director of marketing for a leading private aviation company, which offers fractional jet ownership, pre-paid membership packages of private jet [...]

The scope of free will

I was debating the issue of anarchy and was directed to this article (pdf) by Prof. Moshe Kroy which highlights some fundamental differences between Rand’s philosophy and Rothbard’s including the scope of free will.
According to Rand’s theory of human freedom, man’s only fundamental freedom, the sole domain in which he is capable of being a [...]

Contradictory ideas

I recently had a couple of meetings with a senior banker. In the first meeting, during some light talk, he mentioned his support for a signature campaign for the stricter implementation of the PCPNDT act (which bans sex determination tests). In the second meeting, he mentioned how certain regulations recently imposed by the Reserve Bank of India [...]

Sexual Anarchy!

I have been writing about anarchy in my last two posts and debating it. Meanwhile other people are worried about anarchy too. Sexual anarchy! Apparantly Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (some Islamic organization) is worried that “the repeal of the section [section 377 of the Indian constitution which criminalizes homosexuality] would create ’sexual anarchy’ in the society”. (via The Rational [...]

Democracy and anarchism

Aristotle The Geek has written a partial response to the debate on my previous post. He writes
What is an “unfree” market? Let me ask the question the other way round – what is a “free” market? It is a market in which the State does not interfere (the only “interference” would be of the enforcement of [...]