Understanding Libertarianism in the Current Moment
This is not about every libertarian. However, the basic tenets of libertarianism draw some people with poor social impulses and instincts.
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The Libertarian Case that Riots are Good, Achtually
I find it very, very concerning the number of libertarians who are watching the riots unfold with a gleam in their eyes
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Non-suffering of Foolishness Edition
It is Monday, folks, and while we hope you and yours are safe and well, there is plenty going on in the world of politics and culture that we need to get into.
On Libertarianism & China: Two Perspectives
Is there a libertarian case for hawkishness against China?
Justin Amash Tilts the Presidential Windmill
You can become president by building a winning coalition or catch lightning in a bottle and short-circuit the system. Justin Amash isn’t doing either.
New Terms for Old Libertarians in the New Year
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen starts off the new year by proffering two new terms involving classical liberalism and libertarianism
The Libertarian Praxis Problem: Part 1
Libertarianism and the Left, and the more general problem for metaphysically individualist liberalism.
Presentism for libertarians and the rest of us
Throughout history everyone has always engaged in presentism. But libertarians, too.
The Problem of Doing
in which I attempt clumsily to reconcile liberalism with libertarianism and move on
Arizona on My Mind
Those of us in favor of same sex marriage have won. But how do we live with those who are the losers?
Resonant Hobbes
I have claimed before that civil society is a fragile thing. I’ll add to that that the more civil a society is the more fragile it is. By “civil” here I mean “be-stated”, and...
Triaxial Epistemology
By way of Popehat, Arnold Kling on a root problem with contemporary political discourse, summarized in the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Kling’s three “languages” are ways of talking about politics and government, and they...
Driving Blind: Foucault, Nietzsche, and Dotcom
It’s graduation season, so cue one of the best commencement speeches of them all: DFW’s Kenyon college address has been made into a short movie.
Ideology is the Enemy: Prelude
Over the next several weeks months I will be writing about the recent ascendance of ideology in the United States and why it worries me. Specifically, I worry that the voting public’s generations-long desire...
Outreach, Rand Paul Style
I’ve been thinking lately about Rand Paul’s recent attempt at what is called minority outreach at Howard University, “the historically black college” (apparently the mandatory phrasing). I’ve been thinking about what, exactly, Paul did...
The Tragedy of the Commons
by M.A. The concepts of a “Free Market” and the idea of an unregulated market producing whatever gains an advocate is looking for, or advancing a policy that liberals or conservatives (depending on the...
Three Things About Paul Ryan as Romney’s VP Pick
I loathe Ryan, not least of all because I can now no longer sit in front of the telly (my Netflix queue has been full of British sitcoms) and let my frustration reservedly smolder as I watch the...
