Archive for April 21st, 2009
On murder rates in Stateless societies
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Professor Long is pretty much awesome. I would say that of all living political philosophers, his ideas and conclusions about liberty, government, economics, and society match my own (and, in fact, have helped me enunciate my own) more than any other. I don't consider myself very much of a cultural ...
Quote of the day
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Roderick Long, on the recent anti-tax tea parties: Whichever party is out of power always begins to emphasise its libertarian-sounding side in order to divert anti-government sentiment toward support of that party rather than toward genuine radical opposition to the entire establishment. By the same token, the party that’s in power employs ...
Discrimination is usuallly fine!
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Some people are so sensitive to political correctness that they behave way too sensitively and believe some stupid things. They see racial or sexual discrimination everywhere, underlying nearly all of society's ills, and therefore conclude that if only people were prohibited from making choices and taking actions that exhibited "discrimination" ...