August 30, 2011
“What are you going to do with your gun?”
The most recent issue of The Atlantic has a fascinating article by Adam Winkler on “The Secret History of Guns.” It’s worth reading in its entirety, but I was especially…
August 29, 2011
Engaging—Just Not Radical
Gillespie, Nick, and Welch, Matt. The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America. New York: PublicAffairs 2011. Pp. xvi, 266. Index. 978-1-58648-938-0. The Declaration of…
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…
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 23, 2011
The (Philosophical) Battle of Seattle: CFP for the Molinari Society Spring 2012 Symposium, “Explorations in Philosophical Anarchy (II)”
The Molinari Society is calling for papers. Your papers. In what may be of some interest to philosophically-inclined Bleeding Heart Libertarians: the Molinari Society (of which I am a member;…