Showing posts with label libertarianism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libertarianism. Show all posts
Friday, October 11, 2024

TGIF: Full versus Shrunken Liberalism

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Language, like the old common law and other customs, is a decentralized, undesigned, spontaneous institution. It serves humanity well. Nothi...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Interview on "Ideas Having Sex"

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Chris Kaufman interviewed me about my book What Social Animals Owe to Each Other on his podcast  Ideas Having Sex . Listen here or on your...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

My Latest Interviews

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Michael Liebowitz, the host of  The Rational Egoist , interviewed me about my life in the libertarian movement. Enjoy! Also have a look at m...
Friday, January 19, 2024

TGIF: Milei at Davos

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\Javier Milei, the newly elected president of Argentina, spoke the other day at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Swi...
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Friday, September 01, 2023

TGIF: Tribalism and the Dark Art of the Package Deal

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Tribalism not only lives; it rules -- even more than I thought! I've been reading Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis's book The Myth of Le...
Friday, January 27, 2023

TGIF: Don't Blame Wokeism on the Unfinished Liberal Revolution

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The National Conservatives are not only wrong about genuine liberalism -- that is, libertarianism -- they also apparently haven't bother...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

What Kind of Liberal?

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
Friday, July 16, 2021

TGIF: Who's the Aggressor? Who's the Victim

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When a libertarian says that the most basic individual right is the right not to be aggressed against , a clever interlocutor may accuse the...
Friday, April 16, 2021

TGIF: Should Libertarians Join Organizations?

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A few weeks ago YouTube suggested that I watch a 1988 episode of William F. Buckley's PBS TV show, "Firing Line," featuring R...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Appearance on "Don't Tread on Anyone"

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 Keith Knight interviewed me for his video/podcast "Don't Treat Anyone." Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

On the Tom Woods Show

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Tom Woods and I discuss libertarian fundamentals as presented in What Social Animals Owe to Each Other on his internet program. Listen here...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Unpleasant Times

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If Ludwig von Mises were alive today he would be viewing our current predicament with alarm but not surprise. He lived through something sim...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

An Approach to Collective Problems

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Libertarian political philosophy, as a practical matter, does not offer a prefabricated set of solutions to collective problems. Rather, it...
Friday, March 27, 2020

TGIF: Libertarianism in Emergencies

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Libertarians have always acknowledged that emergencies -- severe extraordinary conditions of limited duration -- can justify actions that ...
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Friday, February 28, 2020

TGIF: Might You Be a Libertarian?

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If you're like most people, you don't go around killing or assaulting others. You probably would never think of torturing, raping...
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Friday, September 28, 2018

TGIF: Spinoza – A Man for Our Troubled Times

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In these interesting times, we all need someone to admire. I have found such a one in Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677), the 17th-century ...
Friday, January 12, 2018

TGIF: Trump and No Silver Lining

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I confess I was indulging in wishful thinking when I thought I detected a silver lining to Donald Trump's election as president. That...
Friday, December 01, 2017

TGIF: Liberty, Democracy, and the Right

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I am mystified by the claim that the long-standing libertarian critique of democracy furnishes aid and comfort to conservatives who display ...
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Friday, September 01, 2017

TGIF: The Liberal Spirit and Its Opposite, Alt-Rightism

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How ridiculous it is for Matt Lewis of The Daily Beast to write, “It seems observably true that libertarianism is disproportionately a ga...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

TGIF: We Are the Economy They Want to Regulate

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Critics of the libertarian philosophy think they can score points by calling libertarians “market fundamentalists.” It’s supposed to conjure...
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