Okay, the main thing that caught my eye in this report is completely irrelevant to its topic. The first person to guess what silly thought crossed my mind wins what Stan Lee used to call a No-Prize.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
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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.
Was it the absurdly hyperbolic rhetoric and juvenile name calling?
Nah, those are par for the course at LRC.
The references to Gauleiter and Goeebbels and, a few words later, the Rotschild conspiracy?
That might be ironic, but it doesn’t per se prompt a silly thought.
Ministry of Silly Walks.
See the real-life Ministry of Silly Walks.
I’ll give folks a hint; it involves a 90s reference.
That during the 90s Obama read Nietzsche and Adam Smith, or that Nirvana would disapprove of LRC?
Everybody’s free to wear Sunstein?
The writer’s name?
Nobody gets a no-prize! (Though for some reason that doesn’t entail that everyone gets a prize.) The correct answer is that the phrase “Rothschild/Rockefeller” reminded me of the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. In some alternate universe there must be a comparable Rothschild-Rockefeller Report ….
I imagine that universe would be much like the one in The Probability Broach, where Hamiltonian Federalists can now go to DavidRockefeller.Com to catch up on the latest Federalist fulminations in favor of establishing a real state. “Hey man, you want to understand why national debt is a national blessing? Go check out the latest article on DRC.”