The Old Rugged Cross
Apr 12For some reason I’m on the mailing list of an outfit called “Conservative Action Alerts.” (They seem more libertarian than the conservative mainstream, so that’s probably the connection.) Their latest missive complains that the word “individualism” has been “poisoned by deceptive propaganda that disparaged it as ‘rugged.’” Well, not exactly. “Rugged individualism” was introduced as [...]
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 22: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued
Apr 04Greetings from Seattle! My entry in the aforementioned Cato Unbound symposium is now up. It’s titled “In Praise of Bleeding Heart Absolutism.”
Molinari/C4SS/ALL Wild West Tour Dates
Mar 27Next week I’m off to Las Vegas for the APEE (Harrah’s, 1-3 April), and then to Seattle for the Pacific APA (Westin, 4-7 April). Our sessions are as follows: APEE, Monday, 2 April: FMAC Session 1: 1:35-2:50 p.m. [M3.9, Parlor F]: “Topics in Free-Market Anti-Capitalism” chair: Sheldon Richman (The Freeman) presenters: Gary Chartier (La Sierra [...]
Famous Blue Raincoat
Mar 07A while ago I started using “Socks” and “Caps” as shorthand for social anarchists and anarcho-capitalists respectively. But then I drifted away from it, mainly because there seemed to be no useful article-of-clothing shorthand for us lefty individualist types in the middle. But there is! “Mack” (or “Mac,” but I’d prefer to avoid the association [...]
Anarchists Under Ron Paul’s Bed
Feb 20One of the makers of the Anarchism in America video (about which I’ve previously blogged) has a piece up at HoughPough on Ron Paul, Libertarianism, and the Anarchist Connection. Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Ezra Heywood, Angela Heywood, Emma Goldman, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Karl Hess, and Murray Bookchin all get name-checked. The [...]
Tolstoj on Self-Ownership
Feb 18Since the concept of “self-ownership” is usually rejected by social anarchists, it’s interesting to see that at least one, Lëv Tolstoj, embraced the idea. But unlike most self-ownership theorists, Tolstoj invokes self-ownership not as a foundation for property rights to external objects, but on the contrary, precisely to rule out such rights. In his 1886 [...]
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