Monday, May 25, 2020

About Those Shutdowns

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When the only tool in your toolkit is a blunt instrument , every problem looks like one that can be addressed only with a blunt instrument.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Replace Your Divots

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I am not, nor have I ever been, a golfer. I did golf once, just before the turn of the century, and I disliked it. Nevertheless, I live b...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Cuomo's Wager

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Pascal’s Wager is a familiar idea. It goes something like this: regardless of what you may think about the existence of God, rational cost-b...
Thursday, May 07, 2020

L’etat C’est Moi!

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Trump has vetoed Congress’s effort to keep him from going to war against Iran unilaterally. Nothing remarkable there. We’ve come to expect ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Radical Incrementalism?

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Hell, yes! Radical abolitionist anarchist libertarians can -- and I say ought to be -- incrementalists because, sorry, "abolition now!...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

FYI

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This is to let you know that I've started a new blog: The Logical Atheist . If the subject interests any of you, pay it a visit and join...
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Atomistic Individualism for the Win!

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I'd say defenders of the automobile versus mass transit are looking pretty good these days.
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Mutual-Aid Societies: The Lost Solution

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Saturday, April 18, 2020

If Adam Smith Were Writing the Wealth of Nations Today

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“It is not from the benevolence of the mask maker, glove maker, or hand-sanitizer maker that we expect our person protective equipment, but ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

TGIF: Is Self-reliance a Libertarian Ideal?

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An Associated Press article published a few days ago reported on disagreements among libertarians over what, if anything, the government...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The Szasz Centennary

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  Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas S. Szasz (1920-2012), the most unappreciated libertarian in mode...
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Thursday, April 09, 2020

Why Politicians Do What They Do

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I don't think politicians relish closing down the economy, nor do I think they'll be eager to do so in the future. For one thing, it...

Anarchism and Pandemics

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I highly recommend William Gillis's "Anarchism and Pandemics" at the Center for a Stateless Society site. It's one of the...
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Where the Coronavirus Didn't Come from

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Benedict de Spinoza Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677),  Ethics , Appendix to Part One, "Concerning God" : All such [misconce...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2020

The Dog that Didn't Bark

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Not so long ago we might have been seeing public-service announcements like this: For the duration of the pandemic, please use the interne...
Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Flunk the State!

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Knowledgeable people (Bill Gates among them) had warned for years that governments were ill-prepared for serious pandemics. The US governmen...
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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Thursday, March 12, 2020

We Need Markets Now More than Ever

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Jeff Tucker's "In a Disease Panic, the Free Market Is Your Friend" ought to be atop everyone's reading list. As libertari...

Price-Gouging Laws Violate the First Amendment

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Laws against so-called price gouging -- that is, price spikes during emergencies -- violate our natural right to engage in voluntary excha...
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