Pamela J. Hobart
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School Choice from Rand to Ron
Currie-Knight’s study of libertarian views on education shows that there has never been ‘a’ libertarian approach to school choice. → Read More
Is the Anxiety Economy Due to Capitalism?
Is capitalism giving us anxiety? And are businesses adding insult to injury by profiting from it? → Read More
Innovative Maintenance, Maintaining Innovation
When it comes to creating innovative new products and allocating resources for maintainence, there’s no reason to think central planners will outperform markets. → Read More
7 Signs You're Agreeable According To The Big Five Personality Traits
Though in some sense every person is unique, it's also possible to describe each of us using several basic dimensions of personality. While judging your own character objectively is always a challenge, here are signs you're agreeable according to the → Read More
How Egalitarianism Comes from Conflict (And Why It Matters)
In societies without large disparities in sociopolitical power, the egalitarian balance is often maintained through purposive action. → Read More
How Many Personality Types Are There? These 4 Are The Most Common
Everyone loves a good personality quiz (the scientific version of astrology), because everyone is interested in herself, of course. But how many personality types are there, really? According to new research by researchers in Spain, the answer is jus… → Read More
Does The 5-Second Rule Work? Scientists Have Debunked The Long-Held Belief
In childhood, just about everyone learns that food dropped on the floor can be retrieved and eaten, if it's done quickly enough (hence, the "five-second rule"). But does the five-second rule work? I'm sorry to report that curious scientists have dashed our hopes and dreams for our floor food. It → Read More
Does The 5-Second Rule Work? Scientists Have Debunked The Long-Held Belief
In childhood, just about everyone learns that food dropped on the floor can be retrieved and eaten, if it's done quickly enough (hence, the "five-second rule"). But does the five-second rule work? I'm sorry to report that curious scientists have dashed our hopes and dreams for our floor food. It → Read More
Pokemon Go Buddy System Might Totally Change The Game
Pokémon Go, the newest iteration of a popular gaming franchise, recently took the world by storm. And the Pokémon Go buddy system promises to become a literal game-changer, if it materializes soon as promised. By some accounts, Pokémon Go is dropping → Read More
Can You Catch Every Pokemon In "Pokemon Go"? Trainer Nick Johnson Says He's Caught Every Pokemon In The World
This "Pokemon Go" craze underway has become an international phenomenon, with not just players but some Pokemon themselves scattered across the globe. And someone has just literally caught all the Pokemon in the world, putting your own casual gaming → Read More
Evolved to Consume: Why Existentialist Libertarians Need Not Reject Consumerism
Pamela Hobart reviews William Irwin’s book The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism. → Read More
Most Millennials Have Less Than $1,000 In Savings, New Survey Reveals, But Here's Why It's Important To Save
It's hard for us millennials not to feel like financial victims of circumstances, between the financial crisis, the student loan crisis, and the recession in general (technically it's been over for a while, but tell that to the graduates who had to m → Read More
4 Ways To Respond To An Insult, According To Science
Sticks and stones can break your bones and unfortunately, as all the insult-slingers of the world apparently know, words hurt too. But there are better and worse ways to respond to an insult, and since you're very likely to be insulted in your life it's time that you gave the matter some thought. → Read More
Yes, You Can Call A Thief A Criminal
For urban life to remain at all workable, we need strong norms of public behavior and the attendant social pressures of calling a thief what he is. → Read More
Taxes, Taxpayers, and Public Money's Moral Matrix
Refraining from discussing “taxpayers” and “my tax dollars” does nothing to resolve deep disputes that leave some public expenditures in serious moral question. → Read More
Libertarians Exaggerate Individual Differences, But They Shouldn't
Libertarians needn’t resort to hypothetical examples of extremely unusual people to defend individual autonomy, argues Hobart. → Read More
January 4 Will Be the Busiest Day for Online Dating, So Brush Up Those Profiles And Get Out There, Ladies
Has a string of dateless holiday events left you lonely? Have you resolved not to spend another year waiting around for the perfect partner to walk into your life? Well you're apparently not alone, because data generated from Plenty of Fish (a popula → Read More
Libertarianism's Untroubling Aristocracy of Self-Control
A no-holds-barred libertarian political order would benefit everyone, not only those born with exceptional self-control. → Read More
Ice Bucket Challenge Raises Tough Questions About Charity In a Free Society
What’s the libertarian lesson of the “ice bucket challenge?” Trust people to direct their charitable donations, even though they might make poor decisions. → Read More
Why Aren't More Women Libertarians?
Some of the libertarian gender gap can be attributed to sociological factors, but substantive policy disagreements must not be dismissed. → Read More