Tag Archives: libertarianism
The Political Future of the US is Right-Wing — But What Sort of Right-Wing?
It is a gross simplification, but I’ll say it. The difference between liberalism and conservatism (as we use the terms in the US) is that liberals are fundamentally repulsed by some basic realities, while conservatives accept them. These basic realities include economic inequality, the human drive to be fruitful and multiply, the human tendency to [...]
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no post today
I have no post for you today, though I reserve the right to change my mind about that later in the day. For now, I hope I can compensate by inviting you to a discussion of what Mennonites believe about government and what libertarianism means concretely: http://fontwords.com/2011/05/23/mennonite-monday-on-that-mennonite-confession-article-5#comments Related Posts:mennonite monday: on that mennonite confession, article [...]
Doug Casey on Phyles
So this is what Doug Casey means when he talks about phyles. What a fun guy! http://www.caseyresearch.com/cwc/doug-casey-phyles Think about the idea, and then think of what Gary North sees in it. Yeah. The whole libertarian/reconstructionist alliance makes more sense now, don’t it? Related Posts:David Chilton’s “Paradise Restored” — A ReviewChristian Reconstructionism Series, Part 2: Francis [...]
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thomas sowell on writing
One of the men who brought me toward libertarianism is Thomas Sowell, and I was looking at his website this morning while skipping Arabic. Which, I am told, is a fatal step if you want to learn Arabic. What caught me about Sowell, when I was a highschooler, was the passionate way he outlines his [...]
on the immorality of modern trade unionism
Once upon a time, the legend goes, we lived in industrial darkness, in a world where merciless factory owners paid slave wages and pushed their worker-peasants to the very limits of human endurance. Groups of workers decided to get together, presumably for the purpose of arguing for better conditions, but the eeeevil governments, which were [...]
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gandhi was an anarcho-capitalist
Many shudder when they look at libertarians, thinking that libertarianism’s lack of governmental power will bring society crashing down on itself. And yet it seems everyone looks up to Gandhi as an enlightened soul. This indicates a deep and abiding fuzziness in the mind of Man. For Gandhi was a libertarian, a capitalist, and far [...]
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thoughts on jared loughner
Jared Loughner believes that the US government does a great number of evil things, and specifically that our currency system of fiat money is a gigantic rip-off which enriches government and its friends at the expense of everyone else. I agree. A few days ago, Jared Loughner shot a Congresswoman and a number of other [...]
toward a glossary of fontwords.com
Words are, as I’ve said before, too sticky. Therefore, unless we want to trade in mere impressions, we have to use language precisely, which is difficult given the way that words are (ab)used in many different ways. So for the sake of clarity, I’m going to define some terms here. Here’s a start. I’ll add [...]
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Hans Hermann Hoppe’s “Democracy: The God That Failed” — A Review