War Piece Online
Sep 22[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] My article The Justice and Prudence of War: Toward a Libertarian Analysis is now available online, and presents my reasons for rejecting pacifism on the one hand and most of the customary practices of war on the other (though as the “toward” in my title indicates, this article is meant [...]
So Who’s Behind All These Conspiracy Theories?
Sep 17My 9/11 blog post Five Years After was re-posted on LRC this weekend. The new version is substantially identical to the old one, except that it includes this additional paragraph: The fifth anniversary was marked by commemorations amounting to an apotheosis of the American State, with endless images of waving flags, and endless posturing. The [...]
The Short Memory
Sep 12During yesterday’s 9/11 commemoration tv coverage, I heard more than once that the 9/11 attack constituted “the worst terrorist attack in history.” Not the worst on U.S. soil – the worst, period. And Americans wonder why they’re regarded as ignorant, parochial, and self-righteous throughout the world.
Overpowered
Sep 11Foucault is often characterised, by critics and proponents alike, as having maintained that power relations are so all-pervasive in society that any attempt at liberation can only be illusory, since such attempts are always and necessarily imbued with, and complicit in, the prevailing power relations themselves: in effect, that every possible apparent antidote is already [...]
Five Years After
Sep 11Five years ago today, four planes were hijacked as part of a terrorist operation that handed the u.s. government one of the juiciest Higgs crises it has ever enjoyed. In the years since, the government has exploited this bonanza enthusiastically, launching wars abroad (wars that have long since claimed far more innocent lives than were [...]
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