Author: Erik Kain
Would J.R.R. Tolkien Have Occupied Wall Street?
I’m not sure where this came from originally (I found it on Facebook) but it’s pretty hilarious. Of course, it’s hard to say what Tolkien would have thought of these particular protests. He was...
I’m on Facebook
So, for anyone who wants a useful aggregation of my various posts hither and thither and thereabouts, I have put together a Facebook page with all my League and Forbes material linked therein. When and if...
Protests in Des Moines – League Blogger Arrested?
According to a friend of his on Twitter, League blogger Shawn Gude was arrested in a protest in Des Moines last night. Apparently he is still locked up while others have been released. Hopefully...
Congratulations are in order
Please join me in congratulating League blogger (and Outside the Beltway blogger, and Forbes blogger) Alex Knapp who has just accepted a full-time position with Forbes magazine. This is seriously awesome and I’m happy...
Liberty & Democracy
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that I was being slightly hyperbolic when I suggested that libertarians dislike democracy; let’s also shuffle aside the Michael Lind article I linked to and the various...
The case for democracy
One thing libertarians talk about a lot is coercion. If you really peel back libertarian philosophy, that word looms just about as large as “liberty” or “freedom”. Coercion can take a bunch of different...
A conversation for the times
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper:...
Neo-Liberalism Again
Henry Farrell summarizes neoliberalism as defined by Colin Crouch in The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism: Crouch depicts classical liberalism and social democracy as mirror images of each other. Both are intensely suspicious of the...
Open Thread: Weekend Reading Edition
This seemed fitting somehow. (via) What is everyone doing to expand their minds this weekend?
Neoliberalism and the Human Economy
What is Neoliberalism? I’ve been pouring through some posts written during the recent neoliberalism debate and it’s struck me that nobody actually agrees on what constitutes a neoliberal. For a long time I’ve thought...
Liberty, Anarchy and the Pragmatist’s Dilemma
I will be blogging Gary Chartier’s Conscience of an Anarchist over the next couple of weeks at Forbes, but before we set out, I want to touch on a handful of pieces I’ve read...
Book Review: The Magician King
Lev Grossman’s The Magicians posed the question “What if your childhood fantasy turned out to be real?” Quentin Coldwater had always been obsessed with magic, and particularly with Fillory, a Narnia-like land from a...
I didn’t watch the Tea Party debate
But Aaron Carroll did. He writes: Let’s start here with the moment I screamed at the TV. I’m sorry, but the audience cheering the idea of letting a thirty-year old who got sick without...
Beyond Capitalism
Umair Haque has an interesting post up at the Harvard Business Review asking whether Marx was in fact correct about capitalism – not about communism mind you, but about capitalism. Marx, after all, did...
