A Slightly Less Unknown Ideal, Part 2
Feb 03Sheldon’s American Conservative article on left-libertarianism is now online.
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, [...]
Ad Valorem, Aïda, and Oligarchy
Nov 30I’m back in the frozen north (relatively speaking). Various items, in no particular order: 1. The following proposal appeared on the Nov. 2, 2010 Alabama ballot: Proposed Statewide Amendment Number One (1) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to provide that the provision in Amendment 778, now appearing as Section 269.08 [...]
Lane’s Forgotten Writings on Race
Nov 26Among libertarians, Rose Wilder Lane is best known as the author of the libertarian classics The Discovery of Freedom and Give Me Liberty. Outside of the libertarian movement, she is known – if at all – as the at least partial ghostwriter of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular Little House on the Prairie series [...]
We Didn’t Stop the Fire, Part 2
Oct 13More libertarians have been weighing in on the firehouse issue; see Gary Chartier, Art Carden, Tom Knapp, Bob Murphy, and Kevin Carson. (I’ll reply to Tom’s, and others’, criticisms after I get back from Libertopia, where I’m headed tomorrow.) In other news, Libérale et Libertaire explains what libertarians should say when asked about the Civil [...]
Feds Plant Surveillance Device on Student’s Car, Then Demand It Back
Oct 08Yet another reason the FBI needs to be abolished and its personnel systematically investigated and prosecuted: We’re here to recover the device you found on your vehicle. It’s federal property. It’s an expensive piece, and we need it right now. … We’re going to make this much more difficult for you if you don’t cooperate. [...]
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