Tag Archives | Terror
Fear and Loathing at the Atlas Society
At IOS 2.0, my friend Irfan reports unhappy tidings from the Atlas Society grad seminar.
He also answers a challenge from Chris Christie about 9/11.
iRad I.3 in Print, iRad I.2 Online
The third issue (Spring 2013) of The Industrial Radical will be back from the printers and on its way to subscribers shortly, featuring articles by Less Antman, Jason Lee Byas, Kevin Carson, Nathan Goodman, Anthony Gregory, Trevor Hultner, Charles Johnson, Joshua Katz, Thomas L. Knapp, Abby Martin, Chad Nelson, Sheldon Richman, Jeremy Weiland, and your humble correspondent, on topics ranging from NSA surveillance and whistleblowing, the Turkish revolt, the Boston lockdown, the Keystone XL pipeline, intellectual property, and the futility of gun control in an age of 3-D printing, to compulsory schooling, American militarism, conscription, worker exploitation, property rights, prison ethics, rape culture, the pros and cons of communism, and the dubious legacy of Margaret Thatcher.
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Danger Elsewhere, Part 4
The Danger Number blog has been updated with Josetta.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 59: The Pinker Angels of Our Nature
[cross-posted at BHL]
Stephen Corry criticises Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond on the diminution-of-violence thesis. (CHT Jesse Walker.)
See also my exchange with Matt Zwolinski and Gary Chartier on Pinker here, and my comments on Diamond here.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 58: The Burdens of Judgment
[cross-posted at BHL]
Pew polls reveal that switching from a Republican to a Democratic president causes Republican enthusiasm for NSA surveillance programs to fall by 23 percentage points – and likewise causes Democratic enthusiasm for NSA surveillance programs to rise by 27 percentage points.
My Rawlsian comrades sometimes accuse me of being too quick to see statist opinions as culpable rather than as being the result of reasonable pluralism. I think these results show that we shouldn’t be too quick to exaggerate the extent of the realm of political innocence.