Predictably, what Jesse Walker has to say about the Kochs is more interesting than what the corporate-liberal media have been saying.
Congratulations to Ross Kenyon, whose latest C4SS piece has been picked up by the Christian Science Monitor!
The schedule for next month’s Alabama Philosophical Society in Pensacola (which looks to be our biggest yet) is now online. Abstracts will be added later. (I had planned to present a paper on the extent to which the Problem of Good, i.e. of reconciling the existence of goodness with the universe’s having been created by [...]
Guest Blogs by Brad Spangler and Kevin Carson PLAN B: Okay, It’s Time to Panic by Brad Spangler Dear Supporters of the Center for a Stateless Society, I blame myself. When we launched the month-plus long fundraising drive for combined July and August expenses two weeks ago, I tried to convey that because it was [...]
Three more blasts from the past (all a bit more recent than my blast from Oscarville): First, two papers I wrote for a science course in college: “The Temptation of Ludwig Boltzmann” (a short sf story exploring the implications of Boltzmannian probability theory – though Amazon thinks it’s something else) and “Evolution: Chance or Teleology?” [...]
Some C4SS-related items worth checking out: [Note that this does not mean that other C4SS-related items not listed here are not worth checking out!] Kevin Carson on The Cognitive Biases of Hierarchy. (Turns out that power makes you stupid.) Charles Johnson on Is the Problem Really Too Little Trust in Government? (Can you guess [...]
I recently had reason to link to my 2006 Mises philosophy seminar files, and saw that the relevant page on the Mises site looks somewhat confusing these days, so I made my own page of links.
The following letter appeared in today’s Opelika-Auburn News: To the Editor: Elizabeth Rutland writes that the debate over gambling needs to focus on the moral issues (Sunday, “Bingo issue is a matter of morality, not legality”). I agree, but I think she misses the major moral issue: Is it moral to ban gambling? Do we [...]
Tom Knapp’s four most recent C4SS media outreach updates: here, here, here, and here.
Some advice on strategy from Darian Worden: Advocating anarchy is more practical than advocating minimal government. To say that government should only be involved in matters of force gives off the perception that you want to use government only as a club, and never as a crutch – to hurt people, not to help them. [...]
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.
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