Happily, we seem to be seeing more of this sort of thing lately.
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How Corporate Liberals Win, Part 2
Extremely sound reasoning, followed by an absolutely insane conclusion.
Inferring from “Ideologically, the Republican establishment doesn’t appreciate the difference between being pro-market and being pro-business” to “Romney is eminently qualified to make the pro-market case” makes about as much sense as saying “Every time I eat a polka-dot mushroom I get sick. Therefore, this giant polka-dot mushroom over here is eminently qualified to cure me.”
“Ergo, presto!” as Benjamin Tucker would say.
How Corporate Liberals Win
Bill Scher confesses that mainstream liberalism is essentially corporatist/fascist – but he thinks the bug is a feature. (CHT Christopher Morris.)
I’m a Mack, and I’m PC
I partly agree with this and partly disagree with it, being more sympathetic to PC than Jeremy is; and I don’t think putting pressure on bigots is automatically “oppressive” in the negative sense, let alone “totalitarian.” (By analogy, defensive violence is not on the same moral level as aggressive violence.) But this is still one of the more thoughtful discussions of the issue I’ve seen.
My sincere apologies for the title of this post.
But He Once Bought a Can of Vienna Sausages
LP presidential candidate Gary Johnson admits he has never read Mises, Rothbard, or Hazlitt.
Molinari on Mutualism
Shawn Wilbur has translated an excerpt from Molinari’s The Red Clubs During the Siege of Paris, critiquing the mutualists. But I fear this conflict between the heir of Bastiat and the heirs of Proudhon sheds no more light than that between the originals.