Monthly Archives: November 2006

Isabel Paterson, Genetic Superwoman?

30th
Nov. × ’06
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Florence Finch Kelly was an important libertarian writer of the late 19th century, and a contributor to Benjamin Tucker’s Liberty. Isabel Paterson was one of the leading libertarian theorists of the early-to-mid-20th century, and a major influence on Ayn Rand. It now turns out that their trajectories intersected: Kelly wrote [...]

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Why Are Libertarians Always Asking for Handouts?

29th
Nov. × ’06
By Roderick

I’ve received several requests for the handouts that were, um, handed out to accompany my Mises Philosophy Seminar. So here they are.

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Molinari Event Tomorrow

29th
Nov. × ’06
By Roderick

Tomorrow night Matthew Quest of the Onyx Foundation will be speaking at Auburn on the topic “Pan-African historian C.L.R. James’ views on Democracy in Ancient Greece.” I’ll be commenting. The event is being sponsored by the Auburn University Libertarians, the Onyx Foundation, and the Molinari Institute. For anyone planning to be in the area, it’ll [...]

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JLS 20.3: What Lies Within?

29th
Nov. × ’06
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] In the newest issue (20.3) of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, Bertrand Lemennicier criticises game-theoretic defenses of the state; Carl Watner defends the effectiveness of organised nonviolent resistance as a response to military invasion; Barry Simpson compares Robert Lewis Dabney and Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the cultural effects of democracy; Walter [...]

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Proletarian Blues

25th
Nov. × ’06
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] I’ve finally gotten around to reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, a book I’ve seldom seen libertarians mention without a sneer. But in fact it is a mostly excellent book. Ehrenreich went “undercover” to document the lives of the working poor and the Kafkaesque maze of obstacles they face: the [...]

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Greensleeves Was All My Joy

24th
Nov. × ’06
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] My passing mention earlier this month of the possible merits of a Green/Libertarian alliance has raised discussion here, here, here, and here. Let me address some of the concerns that have been raised. Much of the discussion has focused on the Greens’ “ten key values” – which I claim are [...]

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