Another thing I forgot to mention is that I’ve had two more posts on my Libertarianism.org Greek legacy series, both on Euripides: one on the evils of war and one on the status of women.
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Spooner or Later
In the midst of beginning-of-term hecticity, I forgot to mention this while it was happening, but I recently participated in a Liberty Matters discussion with Randy Barnett, Matt Zwolinski, and Aeon Skoble on the legacy of Lysander Spooner; read it here.
See also my previous Liberty Matters discussions on Molinari and Spencer.
Welfare and Liberty Symposium: Update
- Tomorrow’s Molinari Society symposium will be held in Washington 5, Exhibition Level.
- Charles Johnson has had to withdraw. The rest of us will be there, however.
Welfare and Liberty Symposium
[cross-posted at BHL and Molinari Society]
The Molinari Society will be holding its annual Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association at the Marriott Washington Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, in Washington DC, January 6-9, 2016. Here’s the current schedule info:
Molinari Society symposium: Libertarianism and Welfare Rights
Friday, 8 January 2016, 11:15-1:15 p.m., location TBA.
chair:
Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska—Lincoln)presenters:
Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo, Ontario), “Contracting to Liberty, Yes; to the Welfare State? No”
James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame), “A Response to Narveson: Why Liberty Leads to Welfare”commentators:
Charles W. Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
The symposium papers will also appear in an upcoming issue of the Molinari Institute’s new journal, the Molinari Review.
In addition, several of the symposium participants have other sessions on the program; see the APA schedule.
A second Molinari Society symposium, on “Police Abuse: Solutions Beyond the State,” originally scheduled for Friday evening, has unfortunately been cancelled (or, inshallah, postponed to next year).
Wild Justice
I have another Libertarianism.org post on ancient Greece up; this one’s on Aeschylus’s Eumenides.
Awkward evenings around the dinner table.
Plenty of Room to Swing a Rope
Last weekend I was at the SFL Oklahoma Regional. This was, I believe, the first SFL Regional to be specifically focused on anarchism. I spoke about the “final arbiter” objection; here are my powerpoints.
This was also, I think, the largest concentration of left-libertarians at any conference I’ve been to – so it was great to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. Here’s the main group photo from the conference:
And here’s the photo of just the left-libertarians:
We are everywhere, we are Hydra.
Oh, in other news, I’ve got two more columns up in my Libertarianism.org series on ancient Greece: one on public-choice aspects of Athenian law and one on political ideas in Greek tragedy.
