August 31, 2011
Civic Virtue without Politics
I’ve read that the archaic Greeks had a narrow view of courage. They thought courage was a virtue that could only be expressed by a man in war. We’ve made…
Month: August 2011
August 30, 2011
Libertarians In Jackboots?
Michael Lind’s recent article accusing libertarianism of being inherently pro-autocracy conflates two different issues. He notes that libertarians have often been skeptical of majoritarian democracy; he also notes that libertarians…
August 30, 2011
“What are you going to do with your gun?”
The most recent issue of The Atlantic has a fascinating article by Adam Winkler on “The Secret History of Guns.” It’s worth reading in its entirety, but I was especially…
August 29, 2011
Engaging—Just Not Radical
Gillespie, Nick, and Welch, Matt. The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America. New York: PublicAffairs 2011. Pp. xvi, 266. Index. 978-1-58648-938-0. The Declaration of…
August 29, 2011
Libertarianism and the Civil War
A number of commentators to my previous post (to my surprise) agree with Rothbard’s view that the American Civil War was unjust. They support this claim with a variety of…
August 27, 2011
Libertarian Wars
Libertarians are opposed to war. They see war as a terrifying and self-serving exercise of state power. As Murray Rothbard put it in 1994: war is “an instrument for the…