August 29, 2011
Libertarianism and the Civil War
A number of commentators to my previous post (to my surprise) agree with Rothbard’s view that the American Civil War was unjust. They support this claim with a variety of…
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August 27, 2011
Libertarian Wars
Libertarians are opposed to war. They see war as a terrifying and self-serving exercise of state power. As Murray Rothbard put it in 1994: war is “an instrument for the…
August 26, 2011
The Freeman Against State Capitalism
Bleeding-Heart Libertarians might find a great deal of potential interest in the upcoming month’s issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. I mention this partly for selfish (or at least…
August 18, 2011
Libertarian Anticapitalism
For most of the 20th century, American libertarians were mostly seen as — and mostly saw themselves as — defenders of capitalism. Was that an accurate view of 20th century…
August 13, 2011
The Green Button Test
This is a brief reaction to Andrew’s post and comments. 1) Toleration is a funny concept. We tolerate an idea or practice we disapprove of. One possibility is to say…
August 11, 2011
Judging, Toleration, and Libertarianism
It’s interesting discussing toleration. The ideas that people have about it are many and varied. One that comes up especially often, couched in a variety of terms, goes something like…