Over on SOLOHQ, there is a discussion of one of Machan’s pieceson Kelo, including my reply (also pasted below). *** Coda: I have it on good authority that Murray Rothbard’s correspondence indicates that around 1954, Herb Cornuelle convinced Ayn Rand to oppose eminent domain; she had peviously favored eminent domain because the Constitution
Aeon Skoble , editor of Reason Papers , makes this announcement today : I am proud and pleased to announce that Reason Papers has a new website, the chief virtue of which is the full-text PDF archives. Reason Papers was founded in 1974 by Tibor Machan , and I took over editorship in 2000. All of issues 1-25 are now available for download or
Following up on this post: “Kelo” and Federalism , see the following related posts and articles: Various articles and books by Raoul Berger Quirk, William J. & R. Randall Bridwell, Judicial Dictatorship (1995) The Kelo Decision and the Fourteenth Amendment , Laurence Vance Fourteenth Amendment Resources Summary of Kentucky and Virginia Resolves
From a Der Spiegel interview with Kenyan (not Keynesian) economics expert James Shikwati: SPIEGEL : Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa... Shikwati : ... for God’s sake, please just stop. SPIEGEL : Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty. Shikwati :
The recent debates on Kelo has brought up federalism, which also relates to or implies the right to secede. So, here are several recent papers related to secession added to my site today (not all libertarian): McGee, Robert W., The Theory of Secession and Emerging Democracies: A Constitutional Solution (1992) Wellman, Christopher H., A Defense of
In a recent post on Liberty and Power, one of the posters refers to: “‘polycentric’ law, or the idea that multiple forms of law can overlap within the same geographic area. Law need not be, and in fact is not, a monopoly within a specific geographic region.” I asked there–is there any reason to use the term “polycentric” to describe what is
This column, An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State by capital-O Objectivist Robert Tracinski makes some insightful points, if you can get past the giggle-inducing Objectivist stock-phrases like “sense of life”. E.g.: Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why
From Wiki’s entry on Mises : the Southern Poverty Law Center alleges the Mises Institute to be a Neo-confederate organization, though its application of this term is controversial. IN my view, this kidn of charge is merely the result of an excess of political correctness run amok. The politically-correct and liberal types often hypocritically
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.