In a recent exploration of what it means to “strike the root” I pointed out that my battle lines are between individuals and institutions rather than the more “libertarian” framing of its struggle as the battle between the private and public sectors. My beef is not with narrowly-defined “aggression,” but with something more broadly-defined, and…

“In the far future, when science rules the world and religion is dead, time travelers will come back to scan the brains of the atheists of the past at their moments of death and recreate them in new immortal bodies in the future. Those annoyingly preachy religious folks will be left behind and stay dead.…

Justin Oliver at Who Plans Whom? (a question based on what I consider a false dichotomy) comments on Making Liberty Popular, by which he seems to mean making property rights popular with the unpropertied classes. He raises concerns such as “I think those politically moderate Republicans have a valid concern that their party could run…

“The American Centrists have detached ‘legitimacy’ from its supposed grounding in consent and now use ‘legitimacy’ to support secrecy which makes consent impossible.”—Marja Erwin “I’m so tired of having to explain how the education I provide leads to employment. It leads to many other things, too. Work is important but it isn’t like we only…

“We” perceive them as friendly yet entrepreneurial, and admire their dexterity on the tight rope.  We hope they appreciate our facility with suspension of disbelief.  🙂 See http://aaeblog.com/2009/07/13/parallax-view/

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As long as competition is a prerequisite for work, then what you are defending is not a work ethic but a competition ethic.  For the unfortunate fact that competition is a prerequisite for work, I blame the market, not the state, though the latter is to blame for plenty of considerably more serious atrocities.  If…

“To those of us outside the movement, the fact that libertarians are a proxy army has always been painfully obvious. The key piece of evidence was always the set of issues that libertarians chose to emphasize.”—Noah Smith “I know it’s difficult for Mitch [McConnell] to believe, but some people work for companies they don’t believe…

Jewel Blossom is a good friend of mine.