Check out this merry message from our friends at the Census Bureau:
And be sure to read Tom Knapp’s comments, as well as the Bible’s animadversions on King David’s earlier census.
I’m tempted to add a shiny poster of Jesus being crucified, with the text: “This is how Jesus died. Jesus cooperated with the Roman Empire’s criminal justice system. Don’t be afraid.”
Tom Woods
Tom Woods has an excellent piece on LRC today criticising Catholic social theorists who think they can derive policy proposals from papal pronouncements without having to know any economics.
Of course I think Tom’s case against extending papal authority to economic facts is an equally good argument against accepting it for the moral and theological facts that are supposed to be its proper ambit, since these facts too “cannot be protested, defied, or lectured to” but “can only be learned and acted upon.” But since he so nicely cites my abstraction paper I won’t press the point.
I just stumbled across this charming website of Ian McKellen explaining the opening speech of Richard III. Admittedly it’s all rather simplistic and he assumes a fairly ignorant audience, but he’s so much fun to watch and listen to that I don’t much mind.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
C4SS announces additional staff member and a promotion.
Darian Worden and Tom Knapp
AUBURN, ALABAMA – January 1, 2010 – Center for a Stateless Society – The Center for a Stateless Society announced personnel changes today, with the addition of Darian Worden as the third C4SS News Analyst and promotion of Thomas L. Knapp to Senior News Analyst.
Worden becomes the Center’s sixth paid part-time staff member. C4SS Director Brad Spangler said “Darian is a rising young talent among anarchist writers and activists. When some angel donors came to us with a proposal to make earmarked contributions to pay for his first quarter of work with the Center, we pounced on it immediately.”
Darian Worden is an individualist anarchist writer with experience in libertarian activism. His fiction includes Bring a Gun To School Day and the forthcoming Trade War. His essays and other works can be viewed at his personal website. He also hosts an internet radio show, Thinking Liberty, on PatriotRadio.com.
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ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY
The mission of the Molinari Institute is to promote understanding of the philosophy of Market Anarchism as a sane, consensual alternative to the hypertrophic violence of the State. The Institute takes its name from Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912), originator of the theory of Market Anarchism. The Center for a Stateless Society is the Molinari Institute’s media center.
CONTACT
Brad Spangler
Center for a Stateless Society
media@c4ss.org
http://www.c4ss.org
Happy New Year to my readers east of the Central time zone! Greetings from back here in 2009.
I’m pleased to see that the Left-Libertarian blog aggregator, out of commission for lo these many moons, has been resurrected.