Showing posts with label libertarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libertarian. Show all posts
Saturday, February 8, 2020

Why Is Pursuit of Pleasure a "Third Rail" in Central Authoritarian Agricultural Societies?

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A friend related the following to me. While she was an undergraduate, her grandparents came to visit and took her out to lunch. At the tim...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Violence Control and the Mutual Recognition Cartel

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Modern states are a cartel that mutually recognize each other's right to hold a monopoly on violence within their territory. The prospe...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Europe as China: Why Didn't It Happen This Way, Part II

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For the original thought experiment, see the opposite question being asked by a historian living in an alternate history, a la "Man in ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Anarchist Conference Devolves Into Chaos (Not from the Onion)

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Story, such as it is, found here . I wonder if anyone asked "I thought we were an autonomous collective?"
Saturday, January 18, 2014

"Small Government" Conservatives Forget States Rights When Marijuana is Legalized

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Ted Cruz and social-conservative (read "fake") libertarians want to use government to force people to follow their moral code. Mo...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Is It Acceptable for American States to Oppress People?

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"Volunteers" - "free" men - for a Confederate Army in the War of Northern Aggression...or was it Southern Oppression? ...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Good Libertarian Attacks on Rand

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Cross posted to Speculative Nonfiction . These should have their own special genre; one which deserves our attention. 1984 was Orwell...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Post-DOMA Gloating and Prediction Challenge

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This is truly a sad moment in America's history . But now that DOMA is dead, I guess social conservatives will understand that I am now...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Why Do Government Services Often Suck?

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There are several forces operating that make government institutions less effective than they might otherwise be. One is that governments...

Charter Cities and Costs of Emigration

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It was in doubt for some time; translated story here . I will be visiting but not living. But I wonder how many libertarian types will eve...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Who Among Us Would Not Say The Same

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Cross-posted from my outdoors and trail-running blog . An interesting short piece at Reason about Gary Johnson: One of the worst things y...
Monday, April 15, 2013

The GOP's Push to Change the World at the State Level

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There's been a recent, clear push by the GOP to aggressively focus on social conservative issues at the state level. Sam Brownback...
Monday, March 4, 2013

First Law Making Drones Illegal for Individuals, Okay For Government

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This is also posted at my technology blog, Speculative Nonfiction . A Senator in New Hampshire - a Republican (more on this below) has pro...
Monday, February 18, 2013

"The enforcer class is primarily concerned with itself (see Dorner)"

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Please read this great piece by Ian Welsh, the Logic of Surveillance , which contains the statement in the title of this post. What was mos...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Post Election Priorities

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It's been said that there is no liberal or conservative way to pave a road.  Political differences are usually differences of priority o...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

The Effectiveness of States over Time, Measured by Language Death

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On his Facebook page for Fooled by Randomness, Nicholas Nassim Taleb advances a theory that the rapid expansion of Islam (and Arabic-speaker...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Drone Technology: Institutions vs. Individuals

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In this wired piece by Chris Anderson on the drone boom, he mentions that hobbyists are currently ahead of militaries . This is good, but n...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Gary Johnson Is Top Civil Liberties Presidential Candidate

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So says the ACLU .  Add your support - check him out here .
Monday, March 12, 2012

The Most Literal Sense of Intrusive Government

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I try to keep this blog family friendly so you'll have to click through for someone with a very clear, concrete understanding of intrusi...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Marijuana Safer Than Tobacco

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Marijuana is safer than tobacco, according to this study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) , one of the premier peer...