Damon Root has a nice piece on Herbert Spencer; plus, he cites me! (Conical hat tip to Joel Schlosberg.)
Joel Schlosberg tells me I’m cited in Jonah Goldberg’s one-sided screed Liberal Fascism (a book that, I gather, quite correctly points out the fascist aspects of the statist left but studiously ignores those of the statist right). Apparently Goldberg has some kind words for Herbert Spencer on pp. 257-8: Herbert Spencer, the supposed founder of [...]
What follows is a review of John Sullivan’s recent book Notes From the Aboveground. In the interests of full disclosure: the author is paying me to review his book. Conceivably, this could lead me to be too soft on the book. Equally conceivably, this could lead me instead to overcompensate for this danger and so [...]
[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 [...]
Charles Johnson defends Herbert Spencer against Richard Dawkins.
Sheldon Richman cites your humble correspondent on rule-utilitarianism and rule-egoism in his latest editorial. I’m not sure how far I agree with Sheldon’s suggestion that utilitarianism is “a product of the positivist mindset, which held that reason can’t judge ultimate values.” That’s certainly true of the kind of utilitarianism we find in Mises, Hazlitt, and [...]
Earlier this month I wrote a letter to the New York Times and posted it here. Then I discovered that the Times would only print letters that haven’t appeared previously, so I deleted the letter from my blog. But since they didn’t print it anyway, here it is again: To the Editor: Patricia Cohen’s May [...]
A recent New York Times article (conical hat tip to Sheldon Richman) repeated the usual guff about Herbert Spencer. I just sent in the following response: [I just saw that the NYT won't publish letters previously published, so check back here later.] [Addendum: Okay it’s later.]
Non-leftist libertarians tend to have a negative view of labour unions and workers’ cooperatives. Non-libertarian leftists tend to have a negative view of Herbert Spencer. As a possible corrective to both attitudes, I thought I’d reproduce some especially interesting passages from Spencer. I don’t claim that either group should necessarily be satisfied with everything Spencer [...]
Consider the following two lists of names: Group 1 Group 2 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Josiah Warren Stephen Pearl Andrews Ezra Heywood Anselme Bellegarrigue Lysander Spooner Benjamin Tucker Francis D. Tandy John Henry Mackay Voltairine de Cleyre (early) Franz Oppenheimer Gustave de Molinari Herbert Spencer (early) Auberon Herbert Wordsworth Donisthorpe Rose Wilder Lane Robert LeFevre Murray Rothbard [...]
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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