As with alcohol and drug prohibition, many people who do not favor organ sales are coming to recognize that a regulated market or compensation system could be preferable to an illegal market.

There is no need for governments to break up natural monopolies, the market will take care of that when the consumers’ needs aren’t being fulfilled.

You simply cannot excuse the choices we voters are allowed to make. We get the government we deserve, good and hard. Keeping the state within it’s bounds is a never-ending process. To believe otherwise, to believe that you construct a constitution and that is the end of the work, is to admit defeat before the game is even started. Power always corrupts those who wield it- always. Humans always want something for nothing, and politicians in democracies spend all their time promising this and trying haphazardly to deliver it. At some point soon, those who are actually in the position of bearing this burden are going to face a choice- keep on bended knee or take a more active approach to defy the decaying system. There is probably no other option.

There is a commonality among many European political philosophers and sociologists of the late 19th century; many important thinkers, who were supportive generally of the cause of democracy and self-determination, had come to be disillusioned with republicanism. Republicanism, they found, inevitably led to bureaucratic state-building and entrapment of citizens in a deadly web of powerlessness. Weber referred to this as the ‘iron cage’ which no one could escape. Many thinkers were speculating about how this problem with republicanism might be resolved. The remedy that many advised was for a great, enlightened, efficient leader who would sweep away the parts of the state that were so harmful, while preserving some aspects of republics and nation-states that they admired. To imagine that concepts like 'the Führer’ were not actively being circulated in influential European political and intellectual circles in the late 19th and early 20th century is nonsense.

It’s once again May Day, and therefore once again time for grateful bloggers to dance on the grave of Marxism.

the architects of the euro assumed that it would foster political unity, in much the same way as some couples think that having a baby will help to save their marriage.