Friday, August 31, 2007

A Better Way to Safety

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Assuming everything the Bush administration says about al Qaeda is true, what's a better way for us to keep safe: a plodding, bumbling, ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Meet The Rockingham Whigs

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This is the first known photograph of the new band The Rockingham Whigs. The band is shown here playing at a clandestine studio somewhere in...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Autocracy Comes to America

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We appear to live in a republic. But look closely; it’s clearer every day that we live in a de facto autocracy. President Bush has managed t...
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Friday, August 24, 2007

Bad Policy Drives Out Good

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All public policies are related. Okay, that may be a slight overstatement, but there's a point here. A politician's credibility on o...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Such Are the People Who "Govern" Us

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From today's New York Times : Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to condu...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

What About the Iraqi and Afghan Dead?

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The Washington Post yesterday devoted some of its pages to photos of the 4,100 U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suppose it was...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

The Natural Right of Property

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Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869), the English economics writer I discussed last week, is an enigma -- until his philosophy is seen in...

Blogtalk Radio Interview

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I was interviewed by Todd Andrew Barnett's Liberty Cap Talk Live on BlogTalkRadio. The topic is foreign policy. You can listen to it her...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Casual Talk of War

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The opponents of the Bush wars and the accompanying expansion of government power have been disappointed countless times before. Just the ot...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Real Liberalism and the Law of Nature; Winning Is Losing

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This week's TGIF, "Real Liberalism and the Law of Nature," is online at the Foundation for Economic Education website. My op-...

First Things First

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If your notion of physics and chemistry obliges you to deny the undeniable -- viz., your volitional, rational faculty -- you should revise y...
Monday, August 06, 2007

Hiroshima 62 Years Ago

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Today is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, one of President Harry Truman's two acts of butchery against Japan in Augus...
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Sunday, August 05, 2007

A Diversion

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To change the subject, I've taken up the electric bass. Some guys my age buy sports cars, motorcycles, or sailboats. Here's my far-l...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

National Defense

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If we didn't have it, we wouldn't need it. Think about it.
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Interviewed on Antiwar Radio

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Scott Horton interviewed me on Antiwar Radio yesterday. You can listen here .

No Substitute for History

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The great economist Ludwig von Mises showed that economics can be deduced from the axiom that human beings act: individuals con...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

The Letter the Wall Street Journal Didn't Print

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The Wall Street Journal published a few letters responding to Randy Barnett's article about libertarians and the Iraq war, including ex...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Barnett Still Has It Wrong

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In a follow-up comment to his pro-war Wall Street Journal article at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, “Antiwar Libertarians and the Reification ...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

Laissez-Faire Anti-Imperialism

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[E]xpansion and imperialism are at war with the best traditions, principles, and interests of the American people, and that they will pl...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

A Bogus Libertarian Defense of War

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My new op-ed responding to Randy Barnett's defense of the Iraq war is posted here at MWCNews.net. It was distributed by The Future of F...
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