Justice vs. Fairness
Feb 27I’ve seen the following anecdote in a number of versions of Sidney Morgenbesser’s obituary: He joined his students in an anti-police demonstration during the 1968 student unrest at Columbia. The police broke it up with a baton charge, and Morgenbesser got hit over the head. The experience led to one of his most quoted but [...]
700 More Obligatory Pages
Feb 22[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Last month I was plugging one 700-page libertarian tome; this month I’m plugging another one. This time it’s Radicals for Capitalism, Brian Doherty’s sprawling history of the 20th-century American libertarian movement. Here it is: the past hundred years of U.S. libertarian thought and activism in all its glory and strangeness, [...]
Cause vs. Context
Feb 22Brad Spangler’s blog is one of the most articulate voices for left/libertarian reunification. I’d like to draw your attention to several recent posts in particular: one on how disagreements between libertarians and leftists often turn on both sides’s conflating social context with social causation; another on how Proudhon’s views on police and courts were closer [...]
Egoist Lullaby
Feb 21[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Catch a video of Stephen Colbert reading aloud from The Fountainhead. (Conical hat tip to Jennifer McKitrick.)
MDS Conference Report
Feb 21[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] As I mentioned earlier this month, the Movement for a Democratic Society met in Greenwich Village this past Saturday to elect the board of MDS-Inc. (My hotel was located, perhaps inauspiciously, right across the street from the building where three members of the Weather Underground accidentally blew themselves up in [...]
Recent Comments