Fear-Fraught Funnies
May 05Jack Kirby once famously admonished (on a cover featuring Superman and the Guardian rushing toward the reader while bearing a photograph of Don Rickles): “Don’t ask! Just buy it!” In that spirit I offer the following comic. Don’t ask, just read it!
Ruwart on Children’s Rights, Pars Secunda
May 05Update: Mary Ruwart has clarified her position on children’s rights. Her clarified views aren’t quite the same as the ones I set forth in my earlier post, but they seem broadly similar. By the way, for those who left me questions on my earlier post that I never got around to answering, I’ve now answered [...]
Find the Unpatriot
May 05In 1782, Thomas Jefferson, addressing the subject of American slavery, wrote: Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his [...]
Montaigne on Profit and Loss
May 05Montaigne famously held that one person’s profit always involves another person’s loss, and this apothegm has won him some hostility from libertarians; see Mises, for example, here, here, and here. But I think Montaigne’s meaning has been misunderstood. When the claim is taken out of context, it is easy to assume, first, that Montaigne is [...]
Shadow of the Kochtopus
May 05Check out David Gordon’s valuable article on the “Kochtopus,” that is, the network of libertarian think tanks funded by Charles Koch. My own experience with the Kochtopus is complicated: in the past I’ve benefited enormously from my association with the Koch-funded Institute for Humane Studies, both intellectually and financially; they helped fund my education, they [...]
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