Spencer Not Defamed Today!
Jul 29Damon Root has a nice piece on Herbert Spencer; plus, he cites me! (Conical hat tip to Joel Schlosberg.)
Watching God From the Palace of Skulls
Jul 28[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Since her “rediscovery” in the 1970s, Zora Neale Hurston has been studied primarily by scholars in women’s studies and African-American studies – fields that, much like libertarian studies, tend to be enormously insightful in some areas and vastly ignorant in others. (Indeed, much of the knowledge generated by libertarian studies [...]
Sugar From the Dining Car
Jul 27I don’t know anything about this movie, but this scene kinda got my attention. UPDATE: That link doesn’t work any more, but try this one and choose “film clip.”
Monster Thickburger Libertarianism
Jul 24Charles J. has distinguished a number of different modes of libertarian thickness (see here and here), but I think I’ve got a new one. At first I thought it was just a special case of application thickness, but the latter seems to be primarily an epistemic matter, applying to cases where the non-aggression principle in [...]
Hurray for Obama, I Guess
Jul 24Did you know that by speaking in Germany as an unelected presidential candidate, Obama is undermining the institution of the presidency? So I just heard from some moving mouth on MSNBC. I’m delighted to hear that Obama is undermining the institution of the presidency, but the mechanism remains a bit obscure.
Flying East and West, Part 2: After-Action Report
Jul 24“Well, I’m back.” First up was FEE, in a sprawling old house that has housed the organisation since the beginning. The walls are covered with historical memorabilia, such as photos of Ludwig von Mises teaching in that very building, and letters to Henry Hazlitt and Leonard Read from such folks as Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, [...]
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