The Atrocity of Hope, Part 19: Droning On
Jan 30The politerati are all aflutter because GOP party hack Reince Priebus compared our President Incarnate to Francesco Schettino, the cruise ship captain who’s been charged with manslaughter in connection with the recent shipwreck off the coast of Italy. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Priebus’s counterhack on the Democratic side, called it an “unbelievable comparison,” opining that “for [...]
To Serve and Protect
Jan 11Crispin Sartwell writes: perhaps it seems obvious that it is in the interests of poor people to have an extremely powerful and pervasive state; perhaps it seems obvious that it is in the interests of rich people to have a tiny powerless state. however, looking at the thing squarely, this is the opposite of obvious. [...]
Dissolving the State
Dec 23Newly translated and added to the Molinari Institute online library: an excerpt from chapter 10 of Gustave de Molinari’s 1888 Political Evolution and the Revolution. This extract includes the following passage, whose wording – despite its dismissive reference to “anarchists” – is clearly inspired by Proudhon’s call for the “absorption” and “dissolution” of the state [...]
Some Distinctions and Clarifications
Dec 13I want to talk a bit a bit some of the ways in which left-libertarian claims are susceptible of misinterpretation. (Note: when I use the term “right-libertarian” below, I mean “libertarians who deviate rightward from the C4SS/ALL plumbline”!) 1. Right-libertarians sometimes accuse left-libertarians of misrepresenting right-libertarians’ relation to corporatism. “They say we support government favouritism [...]
Let Both Grow Together Until the Harvest
Dec 09Here’s a parody video of a bunch of market anarchists, of both left-wing (e.g., Brad Spangler, Kevin Carson, Gary Chartier, me) and right-wing (e.g., Walter Block, Stefan Molyneux, Keith Preston) varieties. (CHT Ross Kenyon.) The vocal imitations of me and of Molyneux are especially good. (Some of the others, not so much.) But I don’t [...]
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