Daily Archives: July 21, 2012

Cordial and Sanguine, Part 40: Seen and Unseen

21st
Jul. × ’12

Whenever there’s a violent tragedy, someone immediately starts using it as an excuse to restrict civil liberties. Many on the left understand this when it comes to the Patriot Act, but not when it comes to gun control. (Conservatives have selective blindness in the opposite direction.) In deontological terms, the right to self-defense is the [...]

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 39: When Spontaneous Orders Attack, Part 2

21st
Jul. × ’12

The second installment of the C4SS Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order continues with my contribution, Invisible Hands and Incantations: The Mystification of State Power. Summary: while spontaneous-order mechanisms are often invoked as a benign alternative to state power, there are reasons for thinking that state power itself depends for its maintenance on spontaneous-order mechanisms – [...]

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