It’s a privilege to inform you that the Molinari Society symposium on libertarianism and privilege will be in meeting room 402 (4th floor of the Marriott).
Be there or B2.
Archive | December, 2014
MOLINARI REVIEW: New Journal and Call for Papers
[cross-posted at C4SS and BHL]
The Molinari Institute is pleased to announce a new interdisciplinary, open-access libertarian academic journal, the MOLINARI REVIEW, edited by me.
We’re looking for articles, sympathetic or critical, in and on the libertarian tradition, broadly understood as including classical liberalism, individualist anarchism, social anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarcha-feminism, panarchism, voluntaryism, mutualism, agorism, distributism, Austrianism, Georgism, public choice, and beyond – essentially, everything from Emma Goldman to Ayn Rand, C. L. R. James to F. A. Hayek, Alexis de Tocqueville to Michel Foucault.
(We see exciting affiliations among these strands of the libertarian tradition; but you don’t have to agree with us about that to publish in our pages.)
Disciplines in which we expect to publish include philosophy, political science, economics, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, theology, ecology, literature, and law.
We aim to enhance the visibility of libertarian scholarship, to expand the boundaries of traditional libertarian discussion, and to provide a home for cutting-edge research in the theory and practice of human liberty.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. We also plan to get our content indexed in such standard resources as International Political Science Abstracts and The Philosopher’s Index.
The journal will be published both in print (via print-on-demand) and online (with free access); all content will be made available through a Creative Commons Attribution license. We regard intellectual-property restrictions as a combination of censorship and protectionism, and hope to contribute to a freer culture.
We’re especially proud of the editorial board we’ve assembled, which at present includes over sixty of the most prestigious names in libertarian scholarship.
The journal’s Associate Editor is Grant Mincy (a Fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society), whose pathbreaking work in the field of anarchist environmentalism you should check out here and here.
For more information on the journal, including information on how to submit an article, check out our website. (Information on subscribing, or ordering individual copies, will be available later.)
We’re excited about this new publishing opportunity, and we hope you’ll help us make it a success!
Check Your Privilege / Check Your Premises / Check Your Schedule
[cross-posted at BHL]
A reminder for anyone planning to attend the American Philosophical Association in Philadelphia next week: here once again is the info on this year’s Molinari Society panel:
Eastern APA, Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Monday, 29 December 2014:
Molinari Society, 1:30-4:30 p.m. [GIX-3, location TBA]:
Libertarianism and Privilegechair:
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)presenters:
Billy Christmas (University of Manchester), “Privilege and Libertarianism”
Jennifer A. Baker (College of Charleston), “White Privilege and Virtue”
Jason Lee Byas (University of Oklahoma), “Supplying the Demand of Liberation: Markets as a Structural Check Against Domination”commentators:
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
Charles W. Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Of Making Many Books There Is No End
I’ve just created two Patreon pages.
One is a per-month pledge page for several libertarian book projects I’m working on; these include:
- Austro-Athenian Foundations of Libertarian Ethics, the transcribed record of my 2006 philosophy seminar at the Mises Institute;
- selections of material from my Free Nation Foundation / Libertarian Nation Foundation days;
- collections of more recent online writings, from my blog and elsewhere;
- a collection of translations of works on libertarian class theory by Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer, Augustin Thierry, and Gustave de Molinari;
- Frodo Shrugged, a book comparing and contrasting Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged;
- a new interdisciplinary libertarian academic journal, the Molinari Review.
Details here.
The other is a per-post pledge page for my four science-fiction/fantasy blogs: on Star Trek, The Avengers (the UK one, not the Marvel one), Danger Man/The Prisoner, and the Oz books. These posts will also be collected as books. Details here.
Pledgers will have opportunities to get advance content, free signed books, and the chance to influence the order in which I tackle the various projects.
You can pledge as little as a dollar per month (for the books page) and/or a dollar per post (for the blogs page). Any help is appreciated; I have a lot of cool stuff I want to accomplish, but am in tight circumstances financially (and my home computer is on its last legs).
Hot Button Issue: Abolish the Police
Here’s Cleveland police union head Jeffrey Follmer copsplaining:
How about this? Listen to police officers’ commands, listen to what we tell you, and just stop. I think that eliminates a lot of problems. I have kids too, they know how to respect the law. They know what to do when a police officer comes up to them. I think the nation needs to realize that when we tell you to do something, do it, and if you’re wrong you’re wrong, and if you’re right, then the courts will figure it out.
And here’s an Indiana-based police outfit responding to the “I Can’t Breathe” slogan with “Breathe Easy: Don’t Break the Law.”
In other words: “Do what we say or die.”
This seems like a good time for the Molinari institute to premiere a new button:
Get the button here.
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