How bad a given policy is depends on which party is in power – according to, this time, Thomas Sowell.
This would take some research, but I think someone needs to set up a (regularly updated, alas) Memorial to the Victims of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, listing all the deaths that can be laid at the doors of the recipients on this list. The memorial would commemorate the victims of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Henry [...]
All you anarchists who criticise our heroic police officers – who are you going to call when you need your bedridden grandmother suffocated, tased, and lacerated?
I’ve heard most of Tom Lehrer’s songs multiple times, but until now I’d never seen footage of him performing them. Somehow his performance comes across as edgier – and less merely whimsical – when you can see it as well as hear it; his anger and contempt toward the cold-war political establishment are even more [...]
Here’s that Jon Stewart video on Obama that I mentioned earlier.
Jon Stewart’s rant on Obama’s continuation of Bush’s policies just now was a welcome relief from Olbermann and Maddow, who couldn’s find anything to criticise Obama for tonight except his dreary speech on BP.
I just saw Olbermann calling for Rick Barber to be imprisoned for exercising his right to free speech. I wonder what percentage of anarchism that is?
Michael Oren, the Israeli Ambassador to the u.s., just got a spear shoved through him by Stephen Colbert and he hasn’t even noticed it yet. Tonight Colbert got Oren to appear on a comedy show, to come onstage as the punchline of comedy routine, and to yuk it up with a comedian – all while [...]
In addition to what you can find at Liberty magazine’s official site, there’s a trove of back issues of Liberty on Mises.org. (CHT Jesse Walker, who has a good labortarian piece on pp. 53-57 here.) It’s been pointed out that “G. Duncan Williams,” the pseudonymous author of a sort-of-pro-Dukakis piece about the Bush-Dukakis presidential race [...]
Literally, unfortunately. World War II has been over for 65 years but Allied bombs are still killing people.
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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