Morning links roundup

• Global protectionism is on the rise.
  • Sign the Atlas Foundation's petition for free trade. (HT: Tyler)
• Sports: substitute for more violent forms of tribalism, or a training complement? HT: ALD
• Offsetting behaviour and condom usage: was the Pope right? A plausible mechanism would draw on Lott's reply to Levitt on abortion and crime. HT: Brad.
  • Updates: Todd Zywicki also weighs in.
• Economics of Crime: excellent discussion over at Cato Unbound.
• Progressive Enterprises uses New Zealand's Resource Management Act to raise its rival's costs? No surprise. Westfield did it 4 years ago in an even more disgusting move claiming that the amenity value of its own malls would be reduced by the existence of competitors drawing away customers. The RMA needs serious reform. Note Owen McShane's comments in the prior link.
• Stephan Colbert on Going Galt; Will Wilkinson on same. Will nails it.
• Not my kind of anarchist. Everybody gets an A+? Sheesh.