Daily Archive: October 2, 2011

The Case against (that thing you call) Democracy

Erik writes: [For libertarians] coercion can take a bunch of different shapes. Taxes are coercion. Democracy is coercion. Unions are coercion. Anything that represents the will of the collective over the will of the...

Vox populi, vox dei

I’ve been thinking over Erik’s post about libertarians and democracy, and I’ve been taking the opportunity to think over my own attitudes toward democracy, and how compatible with libertarianism I think democracy is. First...