I teach philosophy at Auburn University and head up the Molinari Institute. I'm an Aristotelean Wittgensteinian left-wing market anarchist and sf fan.

Auburn, AL
Joined August 2012
Had to address some last-minute questions courtesy of the copy-editing process, but with that now well and truly done, Harlan Ellison's THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS goes into physical production at the publisher and will hit bookstores on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024.
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Russell Letson Reviews The Corporation Wars: Emergence by Ken MacLeod dlvr.it/QC2HQ6
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On the Eve of the Holocaust, Americans Rejected Jewish Refugees - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world fee.org/articles/on-the-eve-…
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Last night in Brooklyn: DA asked for $1500 bail on someone accused of stealing 4 bars of SOAP, knowing that bail would likely mean he’d miss the first day of a back to work program that started today. The person supports 5 kids btwn ages 1-10. Thankfully judge agreed to release.
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we would like to officially apologize for the insufficient quantities of hegel and badiou references in our magazine. we realize that we have been unfairly depriving the people of what they seek in a popular periodical. xitter.cf/DockCurrie/status/9578…
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That would be sensible advice if libertarianism were substantively false. However, it's substantively correct. Therefore there should be people advocating it specifically, and analysis that neglects or takes as unimportant specifically libertarian insights won't be sufficient.
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2- There's conceptual space where we find people who are radical liberals but not quite anarchists. There should be a word for the position shared by those people and individualist anarchists, but not by liberal progs or illiberal anarchists. There is such a word: "libertarian."
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fact that we're radical liberals, but doing that also means remembering that we're not *just* liberals, we're something more specific. So why not *just* say anarchist, then? 1- There are illiberal and unlibertarian anarchists, and distinction needs to be made from them.
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I agree that liberalism should be emphasized (c4ss.org/content/49939). But that has problems of its own. 1- Conflation with progs, 2- Conflation with reformists / moderates, 3- The reason behind 1&2, which is that liberalism is a broader term. Libertarians should remember the -
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"Beware the wrath of the centurions." lrb.co.uk/v40/n02/max-hastin…
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- baggage wouldn't have any bearing on its truth.
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The difference here is frankly that Schmitt is just bad, whereas political frameworks that either neglect positively the necessity of markets or normatively the necessity of libertarian rights are defective. Even if the most pessimistic estimates of libertarianism's sociological-
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I wrote a piece trying to open an explicit conversation about the distinct pipelines that pull and reinforce people into anarchism, and how those pipelines thus shape the underlying motivations people have in conflicts over "anarchism." humaniterations.net/2018/01/…
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Tuesday Weld was the granddaughter of one William Balfour-Ker, known for radical illustrations like this:
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I'm weird in that I'm of the opinion that it doesn't matter how the president performs in his little speechy, on account of all the evil he's done and all the evil he intends to do.
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would go to this but i've already got tickets to An Evening Of Being Waterboarded In A Cage Full Of Spider Wasps xitter.cf/cficanada/status/95803…
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I'm not sure what to say about Thor's break-up technique.
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