IMP in The American Conservative
May 05Stephen Cox teaches conservatives about Isabel Paterson. (Though it’s a gentle introduction; Cox spares them the Paterson who attacked the corporate elite, condemned the U.S. for perverting science to “fry Japanese babies in atomic radiation,” and told Ayn Rand that garden-variety collectivist ideas came from liberals and really godawful collectivist ideas from conservatives.)
Boring Review Now Online!
Jan 25[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] I’ve found another review of Isabel Paterson’s The Shadow Riders – this one by Wilson Follett in the October 1916 Atlantic Monthly. (See my discussion of a previous review.) Follett says absolutely nothing of any interest in the review, but I’ve posted it anyway.
Anarchy on the Airwaves
Nov 14Lew Rockwell interviewed me for a couple of brief podcasts this (Thursday) morning; the first one, on anarchism, is up now. (The second one, on the Giant Squid Menace, will be released when the public is ready for it ….)
The Memory of Shadows
Aug 17I’ve been a fan of Lord Dunsany’s haunting novel The Charwoman’s Shadow since I was about nine. (I read it in the edition pictured at right – click on it to see more detail. The beautiful cover has not much to do with the book’s contents [apart from the central figure’s being deficient in shadow] [...]
Who Wrote the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude ?
Aug 14[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Montaigne himself, whose subtle candor disestablished authority as the weather brings down a stone wall …. – Isabel Paterson Outside of libertarian circles, the 16th-century essayist Étienne de la Boétie is best known (when he is known at all) as the “friend of Montaigne” – that is, the friend Montaigne [...]
Getcha Evil Here! Getcha War Here!
Apr 08[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Last Friday I presented a revised version of my talk “On Making Small Contributions to Evil” to the Auburn Philosophical Society. This coming weekend I’ll be presenting a paper on “Herbert Spencer, Gustave de Molinari, and the Evanescence of War” at a panel on “The Libertarian Antiwar Tradition from the [...]
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