December 13, 2013
IHS Wants to Give You Money
Are you a current or prospective graduate student with an interest in classical liberal / libertarian ideas? If so, consider applying for a Humane Studies Fellowship. Awards up to $15,000 Open…
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December 12, 2013
Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics Argument Refuted in Under 60 Seconds
Wouldn’t it be nice if it turned out that every argument presupposed that your ideology is correct? Hell, yeah! But, unfortunately, it ain’t so. Time to grow up and put…
December 10, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part II: Voluntary Exchange, Euvoluntary Exchange, and the Case for Cooperation.
(A prefatory note: Most of the references are omitted. This is a summary, not an academic paper. Some of the argument here is adapted from Guzman and Munger, 2013) …
December 09, 2013
The Dialectical Impotence of the Non-Aggression Principle, Redux
Walter Block* defines the non-aggression axiom (sometimes called the non-aggression principle, or NAP for short) as follows: It states, simply, that it shall be legal for anyone to do anything he…
December 08, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto: In Five Parts
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote “A Communist Manifesto” in anticipation of an imminent earthquake in world politics. Of course, in 1848, that seemed plausible. A number of people…
December 06, 2013
The NAP Isn’t a Knock-Down Argument for Libertarianism. On the Contrary, It Begs the Question.
“Taxes are theft!” Maybe. But that’s a conclusion, not a premise. Some people think it’s amazingly simple to argue for anarcho-capitalist libertarianism. They think anarcho-capitalist libertarianism follows straightforwardly and directly…