Charles’s Las Vegas Anarchist Café is in the news. (CHT François Tremblay.)
Of the two standard tones newspapers take toward anarchists (condescension and alarmism), the story takes the former, which I guess is preferable to the alternative. At any rate, hey, it’s free publicity.
(Also, check out the comments section for the usual mixture of reasoned discourse and yahoo idiocy.)
The Motorhome Diarists are out of jail and preparing to sue the pants off the cop gang that kidnapped them; details here and here.
In related news, Charles Johnson (in his Molinari Institute t-shirt) talks briefly with the Diarists about agorism here:
Kevin Carson’s latest C4SS paper is titled “Intellectual Property”: A Libertarian Critique.
Good stuff! Tolle, lege.
The deadline for submitting papers to the Molinari Society’s symposium on intellectual property is now ONE WEEK AWAY.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Libertarian writer and entrepreneur Gil Guillory has been named Research Associate.
AUBURN, ALABAMA – April 27, 2009 – Libertarian writer and entrepreneur Gil Guillory has been named Research Associate of the Molinari Institute. In his role, Guillory will continue his research programme on a business model for private security, Subscription Patrol and Restitution.
Guillory has authored, co-authored, and presented papers on Subscription Patrol and Restitution since 2006. All of the work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, and is available on a web archive. Guillory has written for strike-the-root.com, anti-state.com, lewrockwell.com, and mises.org. His most recent publication was “The Role of Subscription Patrol and Restitution in the Future of Liberty,” co-authored with Patrick Tinsley, and published in Libertarian Papers.
Molinari Institute President Roderick Long said of the move “Gil has demonstrated a commanding knowledge of private security, taking a hard-nosed business approach to market anarchism. We’re very pleased to announce Gil is joining the Institute.”
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ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY
The mission of the Molinari Institute is to promote understanding of the philosophy of Market Anarchism as a sane, consensual alternative to the hypertrophic violence of the State. The Institute takes its name from Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912), originator of the theory of Market Anarchism.
CONTACT
Roderick T. Long
Molinari Institute
BerserkRL@yahoo.com
http://praxeology.net/molinari.htm