Monthly Archives: December 2010

Boston Anarchist Thinking Brigade, Part 3

27th
Dec. × ’10
By Roderick

The space of reasons has been whacked in the face by the space of causes: most of our Molinari panelists – now including myself – are going to be unable to get to Boston, owing to inclement blizzardry and blitzcraft. Not sure yet whether those (if any!) who do make it are going to try [...]

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Float Time, Part 3

26th
Dec. × ’10
By Roderick

It’s not every day that I wake up to find Patri Friedman being quoted in my local newspaper; but this story actually made the Opelika-Auburn News this morning.

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How To Do Things With Words

26th
Dec. × ’10
By Roderick

I propose some new terminology: left-conflationism and right-conflationism. Left-conflationism is the error of treating the evils of existing corporatist capitalism as though they constituted an objection to a freed market. Right-conflationism is the error of treating the virtues of a freed market as though they constituted a justification of the evils of existing corporatist capitalism. [...]

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An End to Allegiance, Part 2

26th
Dec. × ’10
By Roderick

The following letter appeared in yesterday’s Opelika-Auburn News: To the editor: Jim Evans is quite right to point out Saturday that the founders (well, most of them) would not have approved of the insertion of “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. (Some of the founders would probably have had a problem with “indivisible” as [...]

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Boston Anarchist Thinking Brigade, Part 2

19th
Dec. × ’10
By Roderick

My paper for the upcoming Molinari Symposium is now online. In related news, Gary Chartier has decided to boycott air travel in order to protest the irradiate-or-grope screening process; I’ll be reading out his responses (along with Kevin Carson’s commentary) in absentia sua. Doug Den Uyl will also not be attending (though he’s not boycotting [...]

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Atlas Shrunk, Part 3

9th
Dec. × ’10
By Roderick

Richard Gleaves has seen the first ten minutes of the Atlas Shrugged movie and lived to tell about it. (See also this.) At the moment, my main hope for this movie is that it will be successful enough to prompt someone else to remake it. But we’ll see.

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