Spencer Not Defamed Today!
Jul 29Damon Root has a nice piece on Herbert Spencer; plus, he cites me! (Conical hat tip to Joel Schlosberg.)
Get Your Hands Off My Spencer!
Jun 17Joel 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 [...]
Power Trip: Will Hobbesian War Lead to Libertarian Utopia?
Jun 10What 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 [...]
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 [...]
Reflections on Utilitarianism
Oct 19Sheldon 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 [...]
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