In the wake of last Tuesday’s election results, there’s been some talk on the left about the possibility of the blue states seceding from the red states. Most of this talk has been tongue in cheek, but divisions in the country are deep enough right now that the idea of secession has a better chance of making headway now than it has had for a long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and Liberty & Power ] An interesting economic demographic from Charles Johnson: contrary to much Democratic hand-wringing and Republican gloating, it appears that Kerry won the working-class vote, even in the red states; and the wealthier a voter was, the likelier she apparently was to vote for Bush. Degree
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power ] Philosopher John Searle has recently argued that the progress of empirical science has now made possible a “new kind of philosophy” no longer beset by the skeptical doubts that worried Descartes and Hume. I agree that philosophers needn’t be troubled by such skeptical doubts, but I don’t think the case against
Just got back from a week in Paris, where inter alia I visited the gravesite of Gustave de Molinari, the 19th-century originator of free-market anarchism. For anyone planning a visit to Père Lachaise cemetery, Molinari’s grave isn’t on the official maps but I’ve posted directions for finding it here
( New to me , anyway.) Economists Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine have placed a draft of their book Against Intellectual Monopoly online here ; check it out.
Johan Ridenfeldt has kindly sent me some early Swedish encyclopedia entries on Gustave de Molinari (founder of free-market anarchism), along with his translations. I’ve posted them on the Molinari site . I love the description of Molinari as “the law of supply and demand made into
By most reports, Israeli bombings of Lebanon are strengthening Hezbollah’s support among Lebanese civilians, while Hezbollah bombings of Israel are strengthening the Israeli government’s support among Israeli civilians. So here we have (what are by libertarian standards) two criminal gangs, both blasting away at innocent civilians, and the result
When the Civil War came, many abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, abandoned their traditional anti-war, anti-state stance to support the Northern cause, in the hope that a Union victory would bring a quicker end to slavery. One abolitionist who stuck to his anti-war position and defended Southern secession was Ezra Heywood; his
Issue 20.4 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies brings an especially interdisciplinary range of offerings, including contributions in history, philosophy, economic theory, and film criticism. While Murray Rothbard wore many hats – economist, historian, cultural critic – Marcus Verhaegh focuses on “ Rothbard as a Political Philosopher .” He
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and Liberty & Power ] My copy of Ed Stringham’s anthology Anarchy and the Law just arrived in the mail. (Amazon insists that the paperback isn’t available yet, but they’re wrong .) This nearly 700-page book is quite simply the definitive collection on free-market anarchism. Its forty chapters include
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