What kind of professor has such empty bookshelves? It's very suspicious.
Check out this interview with my co-conspirator Gary Chartier, mainly about his book Conscience of an Anarchist, on Bathabile Mthombeni’s radio show.
The interview starts at around 5:25 in. (And if you just want Gary and not music, and so prefer to skip the midshow musical interlude, that runs from 25:36 to 28:40.)
Kevin Carson in CounterPunch.
Here’s my hypothesis about people who use slavery to trash the Founders: They have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty. Slavery is merely a convenient moral posturing tool as they try to reduce respect for our Constitution.
Well, I don’t regard slavery as “merely a convenient moral posturing tool,” but yes, I do have contempt for the Constitution’s so-called guarantees of liberty, and I am certainly out to try to reduce respect for that statist and statism-enabling document. So yes, he’s essentially right about people like me.
Greetings from Lancaster NH, where I have wifi internet access but no cellphone signal. PorcFest is great fun so far – it’s like Woodstock for rational people. Seeing lots of old friends. Beautiful countryside also; nice to be in this neck of the woods again. There’s a C4SS/ALL table where the literature looks vaguely familiar. I’ve given a couple of talks already and have more coming up.
Free Talk Live, a Keene-based libertarian radio show, is broadcasting from PorcFest all week. They interviewed me last night; you can listen here. My bit starts around 23:24.
Tomorrow I’m off to Lancaster NH for PorcFest. Then the week after that I have an IHS gig at Towson University in Baltimore. Später, gator.
A correspondent writes:
Saints be praised!
Herbert Spencer has received a surprisingly positive and balanced assessment in a ‘popular’ source.
2012 must be the end of time!
The article is actually fairly positive (albeit superficial) about Spencer’s ideas, but makes Spencer the person sound a bit of a jerk. But that’s fair, because he was.