More Spencer Nonsense, Part Deux
May 29Earlier 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 [...]
More Spencer Nonsense
May 07A 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.]
Herbert Spencer, Labortarian
Apr 10Non-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 [...]
Against Anarchist Apartheid
Apr 01Consider 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 [...]
In Defense of Voting (sort of), Part 2
Nov 23Ten years ago I wrote a four-part article in which, inter alia, I criticised some of the standard Voluntaryist arguments (particularly George Smith’s) against electoral politics. I’ve never seen any response to my arguments from anti-electoral libertarians, but I’d be curious to see some, which is why I’m now re-posting some excerpts from that article: [...]
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