Behold: But Barack Obama is really what has made the left-liberal illusion fold under the weight of its own absurdity. Here we had the perfect paragon of left-liberal social democracy. He beat the centrist Hillary Clinton then won the national election. He had a Democratic Congress for two years. He had loads of political capital…
DetailsI love this article. One of the accusations against libertarianism’s principles today is the idea that libertarians so often come to the exact or nearly exact same conclusions when they look at an issue. This conformity shows, people argue, that libertarians don’t think for themselves, because how can people agree on so many issues, with…
Detailsby Hans Hermann Hoppe: Alone on his island, Robinson Crusoe can do whatever he pleases. For him, the question concerning rules of orderly human conduct – social cooperation – simply does not arise. This question can only arise once a second person, Friday, arrives on the island. Yet even then, the question remains largely irrelevant…
Details[Please excuse any errors or poor writing in this post, as well as the tone. I don’t have time to do much re-reading of basic thoughts I want to get out there these days, but I still would like them out of my brain while I have them so I can concentrate on passing the…
DetailsRogue Operator is an interesting philosophical/political site I ran across recently. Though the posts are few and far between, I found this one particularly compelling. Federalism is the idea that the Federal Government should govern us in some respects, while the state should have most of the power. This was based on the idea of…
DetailsA friend of mine recently sent me this in an email. We hear lots these days about how people deserve a right to free healthcare or a right to be free from burdensome taxes (oh wait, we don’t hear that, actually). Personally, I am a believer in only negative rights (those which exist in us…
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