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 debates in the comments section of my Koch post have gotten me thinking about the different ways in which vulgar libertarianism operates. I think there are three. 1) First, there’s the use of libertarian slogans as mere rhetorical covering for corporatist policies. This kind of vulgar libertarianism is standard Republican territory, and in this [...]
To his credit, Christopher Hitchens is no fan of the anti-mosqueteers, whose arguments he has called “so stupid and demagogic as to be beneath notice.” But, as usual, he undermines his case by issuing very anti-mosqueteer-ish attacks on Faisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the non-ground-Zero non-mosque. I don’t know enough about Faisal Rauf to [...]
I’m curious to know what the right-wing anti-mosqueteers’ response will be to this proposal (CHT Starchild) to open a gay bar – catering specifically to gay Muslims – next to the non-Ground-Zero non-mosque. It puts them in a bit of a bind, I should think. Lately, people who’ve never given a damn about the rights [...]
The current (Aug. 30) New Yorker has an exposé (sort of) on the Koch brothers. As you’d expect from such a piece, it largely criticises the Kochs for their virtues while giving them a pass for their sins; but anyway, libertarians will find it interesting even though it mostly misses the point.
Ron Paul vs. Rand Paul on the non-Ground-Zero non-mosque. How come whenever Rand Paul deviates from Ron Paul it’s always in the wrong direction?
See Sheldon Richman on the phony contrast between American “free enterprise” and European “socialism.”
I’m done with my two-week libertarathon – tiring but fun. Now just two weeks before fall classes begin! I notice that the Mises Institute has a lot of good pamphlets out, suitable for tabling – including Fréderic Bastiat’s The Law, Gustave de Molinari’s Production of Security, Étienne de la Boétie’s Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, Carl [...]
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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