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Life in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel on Logical Fallacies
John and I have been publicly corresponding for five months on a wide variety of issues. Recently, he has waded into economics way over his head, asserting paradoxically that (1) it it the government’s duty to provide a highly regulated sort of currency called food stamps to avoid an imaginary crisis of malnutrition in the [...]
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Liberalism as Denial — A Response to John Fensel
I recently wrote a post entitled The Political Future of the US is Right-Wing, which I opened with the following (numbers in brackets not in original, “liberal” throughout refers to the term as generally used in the United States): It is a gross simplification, but I’ll say it. The difference between liberalism and conservatism (as [...]
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Why Libertarianism Needs the Religious Right
This is an unusual debate for me. I’m used to debating pinkos and commies and right-wingers and suchlike — and I’m sure Gary [North] has had similar experience — where here, Gary and I agree on 99.8% of everything and I’m not sure what the other 0.2% is except this one issue. – Walter Block, [...]
on ‘politics’ by jacques ellul
Just hours ago I finished reading Jacques Ellul’s, ‘The Politics of God and the Politics of Man‘. It combines piercing theological insight, a deep understanding of the nature of contemporary politics, and the delightful mind-stretching capability of books originally not written in my native tongue. Related Posts:on jacques ellul’s ‘what i believe’Three Events of 1973 [...]
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on ‘the costs of war: america’s pyrrhic victories’, edited by john v. denton
Some of my recent posts have been inspired by The Costs of War, which I just finished reading (examples here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). Now that I have finished the whole thing, thoughts below the jump. Related Posts:classical republicanism and the right to bear arms, samuel francistypos of ‘the costs of [...]
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typos of ‘the costs of war: america’s pyrrhic victories’, second expanded edition, editor john v denson
The Costs of War, edited by John V Denson, is an excellent book I’m reading through. I do not know whether you might be able to find a copy of it online, but at least two copies of it are available at the OSU Thompson library. The book consists of a collection of twenty essays, [...]
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Church and State — Two Forces at Odds
I found an interesting article today by Walter Block, a self-proclaimed atheist and a first-rate libertarian scholar, entitled Religion and Libertarianism. In it, Walter Block describes how the harmful influence of Ayn Rand hurt libertarianism by making it almost synonymous with atheism in the minds of her cultish servants followers. Ayn Rand once said that [...]
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good news for the british banking system
A proposal is being, well, proposed, and it would mandate that in Britain, every customer who goes to a bank to open an account must choose whether to authorize the bank to lend out his money to others. Though it may seem strange, this is excellent news, and it is a good first step toward [...]
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kingdom come — murray rothbard on the politics of the millenium
The original post can be found here. In it, my favorite libertarian writer, Murray Rothbard, attempts to shed some light (from his atheist anarchist perspective) on what relationships exist between the various Christian philosophies of the millennial reign of Christ, and the libertarian movement. Enjoy. PS: For those interested in more reading, follow the link [...]
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Three Events of 1973 Which Define Our World Today