Links for 11/17

Cost-effective ways to address climate change

Humankind is not completely at the mercy of nature. To the contrary, when it comes to dealing with the impact of climate change, we've compiled a pretty impressive track record. While this doesn't mean we can afford to ignore climate change, it provides a powerful reason not to panic about it either.

Lessons in Liberty: Fusionism

Throughout the late 1950’s and into the early 60’s these different groups coalesced into what was seen from the outside as the early conservative movement (internal leaders had their own divergent views on the subject). They were united by an opposition to the growth of the state domestically and a hatred of communism internationally. More than anything, they united in opposition to the status-quo New Deal consensus. The traditionalist conservatives and anti-communists benefited from the intellectual firepower of economists like Mises and Hayek, and free-market libertarians benefited from the manpower and wider general appeal of the conservatives. However, these viewpoints faced significant philosophical divisions.

Eliminate the middle man: Pay collegiate-level athletes

Paying these athletes would eliminate blurred lines with regards to agents and boosters, where the parameters of what contact players can have or cannot have with those professionals are often confusing.

Kareem Amer is free!