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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 39: When Spontaneous Orders Attack, Part 2
The second installment of the C4SS Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order continues with my contribution, Invisible Hands and Incantations: The Mystification of State Power.
Summary: while spontaneous-order mechanisms are often invoked as a benign alternative to state power, there are reasons for thinking that state power itself depends for its maintenance on spontaneous-order mechanisms – mechanisms that function primarily to render the oppressive nature of the state invisible.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 36: Wedding Bells Are Joining Up That Old Gang of Mine
My review for Reason.com of Elizabeth Brake’s Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law is now online.
I’ve also blogged thereon at BHL.
But what I really want to know is: can I marry a corporation?
Moles Out of Holes, Smiths on the Wing; or, an Expected Un-Party
Still more juvenilia: “Bill ‘Coon’ and the Giant Mole” (around age 11), “Phooey to Handwriting!” (age 12), and less juvenilely, “The Invisible Net” (some time in my late 20s).
The second Tolkien reference in my post’s title is obvious; can you identify the first?
Double Dribble
More juvenilia: two continuations of other people’s stories, both involving basketball – “The Loose Ball Foul” (age 10) and “One Day In the Life of Mike Teavee” (around age 11).
Silly Symphonies
Still more juvenilia: “An Epic Poem” (age 11) and “Vocabulary Stories” (ages 10-12).
The first one has a sort of Fourth-of-July theme.