Monthly Archives: February, 2012
Fake Libertarians
A cursory examination of the blogosphere courtesy Google News reveals a theme of “fake libertarianism” making the rounds. There are two components to this theme. One pertains to a critical … Continue reading
Caplan’s Entrepreneurial Critique of Georgism
It’s fair to say that I ascribe to a different microeconomic foundation to political economy than Bryan Caplan. The primary difference between our approaches was discussed in a previous post, … Continue reading
Abortion on Demand is the only Defensible Libertarian Position
In a recent Ron Paul CNN interview with Piers Morgan, Paul tried to wiggle out of the “pro-life” moral quandary of denying legal protection to the zygote in the instance … Continue reading
“The Trouble with Liberty” Part II: American Libertarian Incoherence
NOTE: this is an unfinished essay from last year that I’ve decided to publish, notwithstanding its incompleteness. In part, I motivated to do so because of this recent article at … Continue reading
Monopoly Enforcement of Moral Ends is the Foundation of Statism
Allow me to address a typical canard given sympathetic treatment by Arnold Kling. Namely, the conservative clap trap that utopianism is the “ideological and doctrinal foundation” for statism. This is … Continue reading
Cathy Young: Smells Like a Neocon
A simple response to Reason Contributor Cathy Young’s piece arguing the necessity of true libertarians to support American interventionism would be to link to this article published the same day … Continue reading
The Irrationality of Politics
I apply a Public Choice methodology to model politics. Public Choice provides a positive, microeconomic model for the political process of redistribution. The essential dynamic of the model can be … Continue reading
