Friday, January 30, 2026

TGIF: The Right to Move

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If people individually own themselves and have a right to be free of aggressive force, then they have a right to change their location in wa...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Recent Writing in Defense of Free Immigration

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"The Trumpian Ice Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism" "Immigration Policy in an Nth-Best World" "Free Movement Incr...

Report Card

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What's the problem? So far the Trump administration has been Pretti Good.
Monday, January 26, 2026

Parallax Views Podcast: The Government Murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti

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J. G. Michael invited me on his podcast to talk about the U.S. immigration agents' recent murders of two American citizens in Minneapo...
Friday, January 23, 2026

TGIF: Inept Con Man in the White House

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Trump is hardly the first con man in the White House, but he is by far the most flagrant, and his scale is gargantuan. He's also rather ...
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Friday, January 16, 2026

TGIF: The Trumpian ICE Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism

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Welcome to the Trumpian ICE Age, a vivid lesson in the frigidity of collectivism. Take note, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Compared to...
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Friday, January 09, 2026

TGIF: "We're" All Neocons Now

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Apart from a few details, I never saw much difference between Trump's America First shtick and MAGA's chief foe, the neconservatives...
Friday, January 02, 2026

TGIF: Warm Individualism or Cold Collectivism?

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Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promises to "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of coll...
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Friday, December 26, 2025

TGIF: "Due Process" under Anarcho-Capitalism

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Libertarian advocates of minimal government, such as the late Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia , 1974), have feared that individual...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Back on The Rational Egoist

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 Michael Liebowitz invited me back to talk about whether we should have a government.
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Latest Interview

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 I sat down recently with LiquidZulu to talk about anarcho-capitalism, Objectivism, and other things.
Friday, December 19, 2025

TGIF: Notes on Anarcho-Capitalism

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I'm pretty sure I won't be around long enough to see anarcho-capitalism—or what I call market-ordered anarchism —prevail in the Unit...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Marx Corrected

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From each according to his freely undertaken contribution to the creation of wealth. To each according to the same.
Friday, December 12, 2025

TGIF: Trump Weighs in on Netflix, WBD, and CNN

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The proposed merger of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) "could be a problem," Donald Trump says, because Netflix has ...
Monday, December 08, 2025

Pinker on Peace and the Enlightenment

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"If, despite impressions, the long-term trend, though halting and incomplete, is that violence of all kinds is decreasing , I think tha...
Friday, December 05, 2025

TGIF: Defending Israeli Mass Murder Isn't Easy

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Although much has already been said, I can't not comment on Sarah Hurwitz, the former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama speechwriter, wh...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

TGIF: Socialism with a Fig Leaf

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What work does democratic perform in the phrase  democratic socialism ? It's a fig leaf intended to conceal what would presumably be re...
Friday, November 21, 2025

What's Wrong with Young People?

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A former Obama speechwriter faulted young people for having the faculty of abstraction when thinking about the Holocaust, genocide, Israel, ...
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TGIF: The Capitalist-Socialist Asymmetry

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Free-marketeers have long pointed out a particular asymmetry between capitalism and socialism (whether of the international or national vari...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Orwell on Socialists

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"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hop...