Damon Root has a nice piece on Herbert Spencer; plus, he cites me! (Conical hat tip to Joel Schlosberg.)
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Off-topic: Something I just noticed. Randy Barnett points out that the Supreme Court referenced Lysander Spooner in the Heller decision. This is the first time that the SCOTUS has ever done that. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_06_29-2008_07_05.shtml#1214838597
Does anyone know what Spooner thought of the 14th Amendment? Or did he simply stop talking about the Constitution after No Treason?
This makes me think of the interesting book “How the Dismal Science Got Its Name,” which traces hostility to economics in the 19th century to the connection between economics and the antislavery movement; apparently writers such as Carlyle and Ruskin were not so much proslavery as anti-antislavery, finding abolitionists objectionable.
I don’t know what Spooner thought of the 14th Amendment; but he often wrote as though the Bill of Rights applied to the states anyway, pre-14th.
Thanks for the note Roderick. I think it would be fascinating to compare his thoughts on the 14th Amendment to that of most modern libertarians, particularly regarding the citizenship issue.