Also at BHL, Gary Chartier reviews Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America.
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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 13
I have a new post up at BHL: Libertarians In Jackboots? It’s a reply to a piece by Michael Lind arguing that libertarians are apologists for autocracy.
Torremolinos, Torremolinos
A successfully iconic satire destroys the viability of its target. After Tina Fey’s celebrated skit on SNL, for example, Russia’s visibility from Alaska could never again be invoked without derision as an argument for Sarah Palin’s expertise in international affairs. This is a lesson that Sean Gabb really should have taken to heart before offering this particular defense of race-baiting anti-immigrant politician Enoch Powell ….
We therefore say this with regard to Enoch Powell. He was a classical scholar of great brilliance and distinction. His Lexicon to Herodotus (1938) is one of the most valuable works ever produced on the ancient historian. As well as in Latin and Greek, he was fluent in every main European language, and in Welsh. He was also at least competent in several ancient and modern oriental languages.
— Sean Gabb, 2011And then you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday’s Daily Express and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libres.
— Monty Python, 1972
Part of an Original Crowd
Sheldon has a nice post on why proper individualism is not atomistic – wherein he cites Aristotle, Spencer, and … me!
In related news, I’ve argued elsewhere that it is the least atomistic forms of individualism that have the strongest claim to be called radical individualism.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 12, meets Forbidden Reading, Part 2
Charles’ latest BHL post comments on the latest issue of the Freeman.
Liberty Mutual
C4SS is starting a new feature, called Mutual Exchange, somewhat on the model of Cato’s “Cato Unbound.”
First up is a piece by Anthony Gregory taking issue with Kevin Carson’s recent article on corporations. Replies by Kevin and others will be posted later.
Other exchanges will follow, including a continuation of the Molinari Society symposium on spontaneous order.