From the monthly archives: October 2012
Mummies, Rights, and the Moral Community
By Jessica Flanigan On October 31, 2012 · 10 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Uncategorized
Happy Halloween! In the ::spirit:: of the season I thought I’d write up a little guide to the ethical treatment of some of the creatures you may encounter tonight, including mummies, zombies and ghosts (oh my!)
First consider mummies, which are basically rich dead people with very particular wills. Should we respect the choices of [...]
Symposium on Left-Libertarianism Starts Monday
By Matt Zwolinski On October 31, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Announcements, Blog Administration, Left-libertarianism
What is “left-libertarianism”? Is it really libertarian? Is it really leftist?
Starting next Monday, November 5th, you’ll find out – because that’s when the BHL / C4SS Symposium on Left-Libertarianism begins!
Drawing inspiration from the likes of Benjamin Tucker, Thomas Hodgskin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, left-liberarianism purports to [...]
After every disaster, someone says, “This will be good in the long run for the economy. Think of all the homes and infrastructure that must be rebuilt. Think of all the new cash that will come out reserves and go into circulation. This is just the stimulus we need.”
To those who genuinely believe this, [...]
Any time a natural disaster strikes, you don’t have to wait too long for libertarians to start talking about two things: price gouging and broken windows. Since I’ve written a bit about the former topic, and since, sadly, “Superstorm” Sandy has made it relevant again, I thought I [...]
1. I discuss third party voting (including the myth that Nader cost Gore the election in 2000) on Al Jazeera’s The Stream. At the very end, I blame bad media on bad voters–mainstream media sucks because of how we consume information.
2. Do hormones influence women’s voting behavior? Kristina Durante and her colleagues think [...]
I’m a libertarian, not a conservative. We all know what that means. However, there is a point where, in my judgment, conservatives are right: Obama and the high liberals want a sharp reduction of American influence in the world. (Gallup reports that if the vote for the American presidency were held globally Obama would [...]
A lot of people think that libertarianism is defined by something like the “Non-Aggression Principle.” To be a libertarian, they think, is to believe that it’s always wrong to initiate physical force. And that’s all there is to it.
This, essentially, is Ayn Rand’s view about the fundamental principle of morality. [...]
The prominent American Indian rights activist Russell Means has died at 72. Means had a complicated and sometimes-controversial career, but he did as much as anyone to energize Indian rights activism and to bring to mainstream attention the history of violations of Indians’ rights by the United States government.
Of particular interest around [...]
Roderick Long, Sheldon Richman, Gary Chartier and yours truly at the Molinari Society Molinari Institute table at Libertopia 2012.
That’s the topic of a webcast coming up next Monday, October 22nd, at 7:00 EST. The lecturer is Chris Freiman, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary and a friend of mine from my grad school days back at the University of Arizona.
The lecture is [...]
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