You Need Some Blood On That Résumé
Jun 30[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] So the pundits (including people who are usually smarter) are howling because Wesley Clark made what ought to be a patently obvious and uncontroversial observation: “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.” This, apparently, amounts to “belittling” McCain’s war [...]
Marriage Catch-22
Jun 30[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] A friend sends me a link to this story about several counties in California responding to the recent legalisation of same-sex marriage by refusing to perform any marriage ceremonies at all, whether same-sex or hetero. My friend asks whether this is a positive or negative development from a libertarian standpoint; [...]
Abolition Past and Future
Jun 30For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. The scope and speed of this transformation makes it one of the most amazing feats in modern history. – blurb for Jim Powell, Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery [...]
Free Abortion Online!
Jun 29[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] The four published articles of mine that people most frequently request copies of are: “Abortion, Abandonment, and Positive Rights,” “Immanent Liberalism,” “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class,” and “The Irrelevance of Responsibility.” So I’ve begun putting them online. The abortion one is up now; the other three to follow soon.
Vincent H. Miller R.I.P.
Jun 28[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] How sad to hear that Vince Miller has died. Vince, founder of ISIL (I still prefer the original name, Libertarian International), was a tireless champion of radical libertarianism. I have pleasant memories of Vince, whom I first met at ISIL’s 1997 conference in Rome (one of my favourite trips ever); [...]
Pootmop!
Jun 27[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] As a number of left-libertarians have noted, both “capitalism” and “socialism” are ambiguous terms, bound up with various sorts of confusions. (That’s one reason I try to avoid using them, at least without some sort of qualifying prefixes, adjectives, or scare-quotes. Incidentally, I’m pleased to see that one of my [...]
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