October 25, 2012
Links on Voting and Voting Behavior
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…
Year: 2012
October 24, 2012
When Conservatives Are Right
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…
October 23, 2012
Is Non-Aggression Enough?
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…
October 22, 2012
RIP Russell Means
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…
October 18, 2012
Hello from Libertopia!
Roderick Long, Sheldon Richman, Gary Chartier and yours truly at the Molinari Society Molinari Institute table at Libertopia 2012.
October 18, 2012
What’s Wrong with Commodification?
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…