May 29, 2014
This link will rile some of you up.
Tyler Cowen, A libertarian case for expanding Medicaid. I have next to no views about health care funding policy. I can tell you horror stories about Canada but I also…
May 29, 2014
Racist Michael Lind to His Fellow “Progressives”: We Need to Keep the Darkies Out to Maintain Light Beer Nationalist Socialism
What if libertarians wrote about Michael Lind the way he writes about libertarians? This post gives Michael Lind the Michael Lind treatment. Progressivism has long been a cover for the…
May 28, 2014
Try Freedom Stories: To Solve Hunger, First Grow Roots
The American obsession with civil associations fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. In his great work Democracy in America, he marveled that “Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite”…
May 28, 2014
Symposium on Carens on immigration at Crooked Timber
Just in case people haven’t seen this yet, there’s a pretty awesome book symposium on Joseph Carens’ new book on immigration going on over at Crooked Timber. So far, three…
May 26, 2014
The Piketty Affair and Confirmation Bias
The debate about Piketty’s book remains unabated (see Steve Horwitz’s and Bas van der Vossen’s posts and references therein.) I cannot contribute to this debate because (with the exception of…
May 25, 2014
A Few Links on Race
At Libertarianism.org, Jonathan Blanks asks “Why Aren’t There More Black Libertarians?” Here’s part of his answer. A common libertarian narrative involves looking backward to better times, back to the Founding…