CLIX
A less-than-brief production of the Diamond Swamp Agency.
Category: video
A Response to the 2015 State of the Union
Yes, we stayed up all night.
Speakeasy Shorts: ‘Game Night’
I acted in a short film last week. It won an award (and $1000) last night. Thanks to everyone who came out to support us.
Game Night from DC Shorts on Vimeo.
Thanks to DC Shorts and Speakeasy DC for putting on such a cool event and contest! Thanks also to Rob Raffety for offering me the chance to appear in his film.
Net Neutrality Rhetoric, Reality
First, I love The Oatmeal. Matt Inman’s comic regularly speaks my mind on all manner of life’s little complaints (and solutions). Sadly, when he tried to explain net neutrality, I think he missed the mark. By a lot.
Then the President decided he’d offer some free advice to the FCC on how that agency should proceed with regulating the internet. Same problem.
So I sat down with Berin Szoka of Techfreedom to try to separate the aspirations of activists from the realities of how markets and the internet actually function and what kind of regulatory regime will serve consumers best.
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
It was great to sit down with Russ Roberts, Econtalk host and former professor of mine, to discuss his great new book, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness. Russ is, in class, one of the most concise communicators of economic ideas I’ve ever seen. He’s also able to abandon much of the jargon that makes economic ideas so often uninteresting to the average person.
Remembering Leonard Liggio
Leonard Liggio, who died this week, was an important pillar in the modern libertarian movement and someone who connected modern libertarian ideas with their historical antecedents. I chatted briefly with Tom G. Palmer about Liggio’s impact on ideas and libertarianism.
Lukianoff on ‘Freedom from Speech’
“Disinvitation season” for commencement speakers has become something of a hallmark of the college experience in recent years. Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education explains in his new essay, “Freedom from Speech.”
You Know What I Love about This …
… the heavy-handedness.
Bitcoin: Roger Ver Stole My Idea
Last year Roger Ver gave the Foundation for Economic Education the largest-ever bitcoin donation to any nonprofit. At the time of the donation, it was worth more than a million dollars.
The problem is Mr. Ver stole the basic idea from me. I mean, pretty much.
When I emceed FEE’s first-ever Leonard E. Read Alumni Award dinner last night in Naples, Florida, I showed this video and proved my case conclusively.*
Ollie’s Trolley
I’ve long considered producing a short doc on the rise and disintegration of Ollie’s Trolley, a restaurant franchise operation that has a few lasting remnants, notably in Louisville and the D.C. area. If anyone has any information that might be useful to get such a project moving, I’d love to hear from you.
