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Year: 2012

July 20, 2012

On Quoting Out of Context and the Right-Wing Smear Machine

Suppose I wrote the following in an article: The most charitable reconstruction of Adolf Hitler’s argument for killing Jews goes, more or less, like this. Jews are equivalent to infected…

July 20, 2012

Reading The Ethics of Liberty, Part 2 – Rothbard on Natural Law

Most people are comfortable thinking about libertarianism in connection with the idea of natural rights. And Rothbard’s form of libertarianism is, indeed, a natural rights position. But it is also a position…

July 19, 2012

The Implicit Errors in Debts to Society Arguments

Suppose–purely hypothetically–a prominent politician uses the following argument to explain why we should pay more taxes: If you are rich, you relied upon background infrastructure, social norms, institutions, the rule…

July 18, 2012

The Speech Mitt Romney Should Give But Won’t

My fellow Americans, I have been the target of numerous charges by my opponent in recent weeks.  Rather than repeat them, I will simply say this: I will not apologize…

July 17, 2012

Exploitation, Crony Capitalism, and the State

Everybody knows what Marx thought about capitalism and exploitation. But if you think that a powerful state is the solution to the problem of exploitation, perhaps you ought to familiarize…

July 17, 2012

Your Character, Sire, Is a Constitution of Liberty

Jesse Walker has a nice discussion of the Farrant/McPhail/Berger paper on Hayek and Pinochet.

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