Marriage 2000: A Time Odyssey
Jun 30The following passage (CHT Jesse Walker) from Ehrlichman’s Witness to Power: The Nixon Years, quoting Nixon on same-sex marriage in 1970 – I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000! Negroes [and whites], okay. But that’s too far! – irresistibly reminds me of these lines toward the end of the recent Doctor Who episode [...]
The Logic of Marriage, Part 2
Mar 18The following letter appeared in today’s Opelika-Auburn News: To the Editor: Bruce Murray argues [Tuesday] that gays’ right to marry has not really been violated, since they have the same right to marry that straights do – namely, the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. With equal logic, a Roman emperor could have [...]
The Logic of Marriage
Mar 03I’ve heard that my letter below was published in today’s Opelika-Auburn News; I haven’t seen a copy yet so I don’t know whether they cut anything. To the Editor: The arguments one hears nowadays against treating gays like human beings all seem to be recycled from the arguments 150 years ago against treating women like [...]
Ours Not to Ask, Ours Not to Tell
Feb 16Laurence Vance explains why gays and lesbians shouldn’t serve in the military: Should gays and lesbians serve in the military? Once in the military, they will be expected to blindly follow the orders of their superiors and not exercise independent thought. They will oftentimes not be in a position to know whether an order is [...]
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, [...]
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