Asset: Feminists strike back in India Liability: Leonard Peikoff embraces private terrorism against American Muslims
I was pleased to see that the article on libertarian feminism that Charles and I wrote a few years back is discussed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on liberal feminism. (The entry also cites two pieces by my friend Elizabeth Brake.) (Unfortunately, the entry gets Charles’s name wrong and cites an obsolete version [...]
New studies suggest that the human fetus is incapable of feeling pain during the first six months. (CHT Der Leiter.)
For theocops in Saudi Arabia. (CHT LRC.)
Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi has been making news for his pathbreaking discovery that immodest women are the cause of earthquakes. But I believe Rita Hayworth beat him to it.
On Friday the 12th I’m off to Prague for the PCPE (which means I’ll unfortunately miss most of the ASC here in Auburn, though I do plan to drop in on the first day, the 11th). The PCPE doesn’t actually start until the 19th, but its coinciding with my spring break means I can spend [...]
The Feminist Philosophers blog praises our ontology conference.
Charles Johnson’s excellent essay “Liberty, Equality, Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism,” which appeared in the anarchism/minarchism anthology that Tibor Machan and I edited, is now available online. Read it now, or the statists win.
Just caught a clip of Joy Behar talking about Joslyn James, the porn star who claims to have been pregnant by Tiger Woods. Behar said, inter alia, that a) of course Joslyn James wouldn’t have wanted to raise a child, because she’s a porn star and so has no “maternal instinct”; and b) it’s not [...]
I just received in the mail, kindly sent to me by Włodzimierz Gogłoza, a Polish libertarian magazine called MindFuck (pronounced, I assume, “Minndfootsk”) that includes translations into Polish of the libertarian feminist piece I wrote with Charles, Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?, as well as my blog post Against Anarchist Apartheid. The magazine’s [...]
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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