As a follow-up to my last Molinari Society update – you can now also read Jan Narveson’s comments on Crispin Sartwell, Jennifer McKitrick’s comments on me, and my comments on Nicole Hassoun.
Merry Solstice!
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Can’t Touch This
Do you remember Colin Powell waving that tube of anthrax around at the U.N.? Or Bush Sr.’s speech where he brandished his bag of crack cocaine that was sold right across the street from the White House (once government agents managed, with some difficulty, to lure the seller there)?
Gee, why weren’t Bush and Powell arrested?
A useful talking point: all laws against the mere possession of certain objects (guns, drugs, pornography, etc.) are a violation of human equality, because they inherently apply only to some people and not others (since the others – the government – have to retain possession of these items after they confiscate them, in order to use them as evidence against the original possessors).
Murray Rothbard Is Alive!
A shocking revelation from Lew Rockwell today:
“Mr. Libertarian,” Murray N. Rothbard was called, and “The State’s Greatest Living Enemy.” He remains so.
Anarchy in Philadelphia
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
Jan Narveson’s response to Nicole Hassoun’s comments is now online.
Here’s the final roster for the Molinari Society’s upcoming fifth annual Symposium being held in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2008:
GIX-3. Monday, 29 December 2008, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Molinari Society symposium: Authors Meet Critics:
Crispin Sartwell’s Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory and
Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan, eds., Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Room TBA
Chair: Carrie-Ann Biondi (Marymount Manhattan College)
Critics:
Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Christopher Morris (University of Maryland)
Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon University)Authors:
John Hasnas (Georgetown University)
Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo-Canada)
Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson College)
William Thomas (Atlas Society)
The APA, ever vigilant against the menace of free riders (and, I suspect, grossly overestimating the inelasticity of demand for APA sessions) isn’t
revealing the location of the session until we pick up our final programs at registration. But I’ll try to post the info as soon as I learn it.
The Mask of Anarky
The latest issue (#181) of Robin features the return of Anarky – sort of.
At first I was annoyed, since Anarky seemed to be blowing stuff up pointlessly – “chaos for fun.”
But it soon transpired that the guy wearing the Anarky outfit is actually the Batman villain Ulysses Armstrong, who seems to have the real Anarky – Lonnie Machin – imprisoned and on life support (and looking in pretty bad shape). What all that’s about remains to be seen.
Secession of the Empire
If you’re reading this on my old blog site, go to my new blog site.
If you’re reading this on my new blog site, welcome to my new blog site! (And before long, the old site will simply redirect here.)
My blog’s former host, Yahoo, was a disaster; I’d been increasingly plagued by hidden spam ads, RSS failures, and so forth, and Yahoo’s customer service was the absolutely least helpful I’ve ever encountered.
So – brand new server, brand new day. All the old posts, comments, etc. have been moved here. And thanks very much to Brandon Snider for assisting this transition!