Author Archives: artcarden

A Chronicle Of My Thoughts On The TSA

The US Government responded very poorly to the terrorist attack on September 11th by creating the Transportation Security Administration. The TSA is a perpetual monument to a frightened electorate that is very bad at Math. Specifically, the TSA represents a gross overreaction that causes more problems than it solves. On Transportation Security Mises Institute, November 11, […]

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The Stadium Scam

Check out these articles I’ve written about subsidizing stadiums. Dobelli on Stadiums: What are the Alternatives? It’s Time for Governments to Get Over the Edifice Complex Health Care, Wage Gaps, Walmart, Stadiums And Spending: Notes From Stossel’s ‘Liar, Liar’ WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Stadium Scam Your City Probably Doesn’t Need a Government-Financed Stadium or Convention Center […]

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In Defense of Candy Crush

How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]

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Arnold Kling, “Three Languages of Politics”

It looks like most political commentators are just talking past one another. Why? Arnold Kling hazards a guess, arguing that people don’t understand one another because they have fundamentally different visions of how the world works. According to Kling, conservatives see the world as a conflict between civilization and barbarism, liberals see it as a […]

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