My Daily Caller piece on Ron Paul has drawn some interesting responses, including this one from Brian Doherty over at Reason. Many of these responses raise legitimate issues, and obviously there’s a lot that I couldn’t go into in an 800 word op-ed. So I thought I’d take some [...]
Over at the Daily Caller, I have a short piece up arguing that libertarians should spend less time and energy on the Ron Paul campaign, and more on the long-term project of shaping the culture’s intellectual climate. Comments here or there welcome, though I’ll be more likely to see them here.
Some of you might have missed Glenn Greenwald’s essay on Progressives and Ron Paul over the holiday weekend. If so, you should go read it now. It’s one the best pieces I’ve seen from Glenn, and he’s written a lot of great pieces.
Here’s the gist. Ron Paul makes progressives uncomfortable, because [...]
A few months back, there arose a bit of a kerfuffle in the libertarian blogosphere over David Gordon’s review of Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s Declaration of Independents. For those who haven’t read it, that book is something of a freewheeling celebration of the spirit of liberty and [...]
How Did We Get Here? Or, Why Do 20 Year Old Newsletters Matter So Damn Much?
As some of you might know, I’ve been stirring up quite a bit of trouble on Facebook the last few days discussing the Ron Paul newsletters story. Matt suggested I write up some of what I’ve been saying for the audience here at BHL, which I’m happy to do. First let me note that the [...]
In my first post here, I wrote that among my reasons for embracing a liberal kind of libertarianism and wanting to publicly emphasize libertarianism’s liberal-ness is
the great importance, in America in particular, of sharply distinguishing the cause of freedom from the cause of slavery which is happy to claim its name. The [...]
What about Ron Paul?
If you say you’re against the state these days, someone’s sure to ask you how your views parallel Ron Paul’s. The frequency of these sorts of conversations seem likely to increase if poll wizard Nate Silver is right that the Texas Representative will win in the Iowa Republican caucus.
I’m sitting out this year’s electoral [...]
This past weekend at the Huckabee Presidential Candidate Forum, Ron Paul was asked what one book he would suggest every American read. His answer was that they should read The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat. (Video here, at about 10:40)
This was a great answer, and I heartily second Paul’s endorsement. If [...]
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