Redistribution and the State
I’ve written recently about what I termed ‘front-end’ redistribution. That is, redistribution of wealth and resources prior to state redistribution – or, the way it should be in a perfect world. One example of...
Tagged: statism
Anti-statists and the current regime
Bob Cheeks asks: “Do you see yourself, in some degree, to be anti-statist? What is your opinion of the current regime?” Well I suppose I do consider myself to be anti-statist, but I’m also...
Community as safety-net
One of the most common arguments against my call for better, more effective state-provided safety nets is that these safety nets somehow replace those provided by families and close-knit communities. Apparently if people are...
rethinking a strong national defense
Mark Levin’s response to The Weekly Standard’s Peter Berkowitz is surprisingly good. I find myself truly befuddled by the apparent twin-personalities of the man who is Mark Levin – the thoughtful, reasonable essayist vs....
The State of Political Economic Definitions
Yesterday ED got a good conversation going in response to this question: How can anti-statists reconcile themselves with protectionism? I think however we need to be careful with the ‘s’ word. I’m guilty of...
a question for anti-statists
How can anti-statists reconcile themselves with protectionism? This has become a kind of stumbling block for me. I have slowly become more and more disillusioned with protectionism as policy because it seems that it...
