Defending Canadian Censorship
May 24Some of you will be interested in my exchange (as berserkrl) with atheron and ginge_muppet in the comments section of this story.
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, [...]
Float Time, Part 3
Dec 26It’s not every day that I wake up to find Patri Friedman being quoted in my local newspaper; but this story actually made the Opelika-Auburn News this morning.
Alongside Machete
Sep 24Okay, Machete isn’t Hitchcock or anything; but it’s a fun movie. It also has some interesting libertarian aspects: It’s explicitly in favour of open borders. It’s implicitly in favour of the right to bear arms. It dramatises countereconomic resistance to government (“the Network”). It also dramatises the “Baptists and bootleggers” dynamic, as [...]
Equal Protection, Part 2
Aug 06In related news, Butler Shaffer is puzzled as to why gay-marriage advocates “want to have the state certify [their] relationships with others” as opposed to just “perform[ing their] own ceremony of marriage without getting the state’s approval.” The answer, obviously, is that the state imposes special burdens on couples who don’t marry in the approved [...]
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