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Washington Frees His Slaves, While Revere Warns the Wrong Side
Sarah Palin on George Washington: “how hard he must have worked to keep that farm going!”
Sarah Palin on Paul Revere: he “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots.”
Laugh Line of the Week
“We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free-market economy.” – Mitt Romney
Anarchy in DC
The Molinari Society will be holding its eighth annual Symposium (or seventh or ninth, depending on how one counts; let’s just say our Year 8 Symposium) in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Mordor, I mean Washington DC, December 27-30, 2011. Here’s the latest schedule info:
Molinari Society symposium:
“Explorations in Philosophical Anarchy”
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW
Day & room TBA
chair: Elizabeth Brake (Arizona State University)
presenters:
Kevin Vallier (Brown University / Bowling Green State University),
“The Eligibility of a Polycentric Constitution”
Eli Dourado (George Mason University),
“Anarchy and Equilibrium: When Is Statelessness Stable?”commentators:
Nina Brewer-Davis (Auburn University)
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
Jon Mahoney (Kansas State University)
Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
We’ve requested a three-hour session to leave time for all the commentators.
In related news, we’ll be announcing the call for papers for our 2012 Pacific APA session shortly.
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 16: Surveiller et Punir
(CHT Charles J.)
Well, There’s Spam, Egg, Sausage, and Spam; That’s Not Got MUCH Spam In It
Kevin Carson, in the new Freeman, on European “socialism” versus American “capitalism”:
[S]ocial democracy treats privilege as normal and leaves it intact – then regulates it to make it bearable to the subordinate classes without altering its fundamental nature as privilege. But most of the positive aspects of the European model simply duplicate what could be achieved by dismantling privilege altogether.
(Celý piroh.)
In the same issue, see John Blundell on the Grimké sisters and Stephan Kinsella on IP. There’s other good stuff too.