What Does Wilt Chamberlain Owe to Society?
While Robert Nozick’s theory of justice is out of favor with the academic world, his radical libertarian views--particularly his Wilt Chamberlain example--deserve another look.
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Charles Dunoyer and French Classical Liberalism
The radical French classical liberals were pioneers in market anarchism and they explained how radical laissez-faire was key to battling the "monstrous" state.
Social Analysis of Three Early 19th Century French Liberals: Say, Comte, and Dunoyer
The thinking of Say, Comte, and Dunoyer cannot be examined in isolation, divorced from traditional liberal ideas and the intellectual currents of their day. Their class theories cannot be separated from what we might now consider the separate specializations of economics, history and political theory.
Book Review: The Duty to Vote
Is voting a moral duty, or only a right that citizens are free to ignore? Joseph Solis-Mullen reviews Julia Maskivker’s The Duty to Vote.
Hitler’s Attitude toward Market and Planned Economy, Private Property, and Nationalization
The theory that Hitler had been a confirmed believer in private ownership and an opponent of nationalization hides the contradictions – and also the development – of his economic ideas.
Book Review: Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
In his new book on the influential Jacob Taubes, distinguished historian Jerry Muller demonstrates an almost unparalleled ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms.
New Directions in Crypto-Politics
Cryptographic protocols, based on some elements of monero cryptocurrency, presents a responsible voting scheme with profit and loss criteria for voters that is able to further the base political framework.
Incivility: Progressivism’s Unacknowledged Cost
The principal cause of today’s uncivil, adversarial culture is the prevalence of identity politics and political factions acting within a conflicted environment of redistributive progressive politics and counterprogressive postmodern ideology.
Mises, Borges, Mariana, and Cervantes: When Liberal Politics and Economics Are Serious Fiction
Neither classical liberals nor libertarians should yield to Marxists when it comes to the production and interpretation of literature. Storytelling should be in our wheelhouse as much as theirs.
Milton Friedman Unraveled
An advisor of Richard Nixon and a friend of most Administration economists, Friedman has, in fact, served the regime as a sort of leading unofficial apologist for Nixonite policy.
