A Slightly Less Unknown Ideal
Jan 31The newest (March 2011) issue of The American Conservative features an article by Sheldon Richman titled “Libertarian Left: Free-Market Anti-Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal.” It discusses, inter alia, the Center for a Stateless Society, the Alliance of the Libertarian Left, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Roy Childs, Karl Hess, Thomas Hodgskin, Benjamin Tucker, Gabriel Kolko, Kevin Carson, [...]
Boston Anarchist Thinking Brigade, Part 4
Jan 29The Molinari Society panels that were cancelled in Boston owing to weather have been resurrected! The spontaneous order panel is moving to the Austrian Scholars Conference (March 10-12 in Auburn), while the session on Gary Chartier’s book is moving to the Pacific APA (April 20-23 in San Diego). Thanks to Charles J. for suggesting I [...]
Equal Protection
Jan 19“Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister.” — Alabama’s new governor, moments after his inauguration I seem to recall some Jewish guy expressing a somewhat different opinion. Alabama governors are famous for putting their feet in their mouths, [...]
Anarchy on the Airwaves, Part 2
Jan 19Lew Rockwell interviews me on today’s LRC podcast, on the subject of anarchism. (Actually the interview took place last September; there’s a bit of a podcast backlog.) I tried to avoid too much duplication with my previous LRC podcast on the same subject from two years earlier. (I vaguely remember now that we also did [...]
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 10: Selective Grief
Jan 14Obama’s remarks about the nine-year-old girl who was murdered in Tucson were very moving.* I look forward to his equally moving encomium to the Afghan and Pakistani children murdered by his air strikes and drone attacks. * Well, actually they were somewhat insulting, inasmuch as he suggested that her future, had she lived, [...]
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