Publius/John Blevins at Obsidian Wings has written quite a bit over the years about the issue of net neutrality. For the most part, I’ll admit, the discussion has largely made my eyes glaze over...
“I have this crazy notion that there is a point where Red Toryism and the kind of libertarian ideas E.D. is promoting could work together.” ~ Chris Dierkes I suppose I’m either hopelessly conflicted...
Joe Carter responds to my post on Hayek and Health Care and owns it like Johnny Cash doing Nine Inch Nails.
I don’t know how, during the long months of this health insurance debate, this quote from Road To Serfdom slipped my mind, but it certainly bears re-emphasis: “Nor is there any reason why the...
Continuing on the theme of Red Toryism, ED writes: It’s true, the free market is a system sans morality, a system of personal choices and determinations, and our political leaders should do their utmost...
Br. Mark last week crafted an excellent post criticizing his own political views which generated some interesting back-and-forth commentary. It comes highly recommended. Mark asked other members of the League if they might follow...
If there was ever even the faintest glimmer of hope for Wyden-Bennett or any other kind of meaningful health care reform proposal amenable to conservative and libertarian sensibilities, the Club For Growth just killed...
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a good piece up that explores some of the same ground I explored in my self-critique of libertarianism, although he unfortunately does so without the assistance of Monty Python. Gobry’s central...
In the comments to Scott’s post last week, greginak (who was one of the few to hone in on Scott’s central point) asked for the “posters to offer criticisms of their own theories.” This seemed...
Responding to my defense of the value of libertarianism/blatant excuse to repost Mr. Henley’s Jester quote, OG regulars Michael Drew and Bob make some great points about the idea of libertarianism-as-vector that led me...
“Monopolies are not innovative, whether they are public or private.” ~ Megan McArdle “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do Two can be as bad as one It’s the loneliest number since...
“By treating any and all social safety nets as irreversible steps on the Road to Serfdom, we allow liberals and progressives to shape those policies in ways that are inefficient, ineffective, and overbroad –...
Fascinating piece up by Brian Doherty on “seasteading” the anti-government project being pursued by grandson of economist Milton Friedman, Patri Friedman, to create modular, stateless “seasteads” on the ocean. The question that leaps to...
To a certain extent, I think Freddie’s being too harsh on Reihan in this post. But at the same time, his broader point is an important one that I think a lot of conservatives...
Last week, the Blogger Still Known As Publius wrote a nice piece arguing that the potential-to-likely passage of net neutrality, a public health care option, and energy reform disprove, or at least have a...
— Now this is a fairly explosive one, and it should be stated up front that it is just one side of a much much more complicated story which the author is leaving out...
Craigslist’s idiosyncratic libertarianism is the subject of this highly-entertaining article.
Reading over Will’s post about Geert Wilders’ manifesto to save Western Civilization got me thinking. Not so much about Wilders or the actual manifesto, given that I think he is a Class A wackjob,...
Thanks to John, I am pointed to these two rather strange arguments in favor of the Drug War and against libertarian use of statistics on race against the Drug War from Jonah Goldberg. John...
Amongst several others, Ross Douthat has some really good thoughts on my arguments for a more liberal libertarianism. So good are a lot of these responses that I could probably spend the next month discussing them (don’t worry, I won’t). But Ross’ points are probably the most comprehensive.
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