Archive for the ‘Minarchism’ Category
Brave Statists on Mises.org
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008As wrong as they are, I am quite impressed with several of the non-libertarians—and in fact outright socialists—who frequent the Mises blag discussion threads and offer their input as to why a Mises columnist or blagger was way off and why government is actually not so bad, and is necessary, ...
It must suck to be Matt Moore
Saturday, June 21st, 2008I know this is nearly one-month-old news, but I have been too busy to blag much lately, as you can tell. Fear not, I'll be back in full force soon. I have been meaning to blag about this for a while because it is so stupid and so maddening. Radley ...
Why I oppose monopolistic justice (sic) systems
Thursday, June 5th, 2008The only remaining halfway-decent argument against the unregulated free market that I've encountered is that private police, courts, and retribution systems would be unaccountable to the actual justice of natural law and result in an increase in unchecked use of force against innocents. This would happen, they say, because there ...
Federalism and gay marriage
Saturday, May 17th, 2008I came across a blag that supports the Libertarian Party in the name of gay, lesbian, and bixexual rights, Outright Libertarians, and its proprietor, Brian Miller, has been writing a lot about the ruling by the California Supreme Court that California's illegalization of gay marriages was unconstitutional. In an example ...
Anarchy is workable, Statism is not
Friday, May 9th, 2008An entire month ago, Francois Tremblay wrote a blag post, Statism is Utopian that I blagged about here. In the comments, I told him I thought he was incorrect in his assertion that an unworkable situation can proceed from a workable situation but that a workable situation cannot proceed from ...
My anarchist conversion
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Encountering some other anarcho-capitalists' web pages recently, like Roderick Long and Charles Johnson, got me to reminiscing about the single, specific thing that made me convert from Frederic Bastiat's minarchism to Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism. I don't know how many libertarians can identify a single experience or essay or moment that led ...
Minarchism: Ethically self-contradictory
Saturday, January 19th, 2008A really good essay at the blag Brainpolice, a member of the Mises Institute's Austrian Network.
Minarchism, libertarianism, and negative rights
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Jeffrey Tucker's recent account of his experience in court spawned a quite lively discussion in the Mises blag about private provision of law enforcement in the absence of a State. I made one of the comments towards the end. Many of the minarchist positions and objections are good and well ...
Origins
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Though this website is only at the beginning of its infancy, it is already clear that the partnership of John and Kelly at blagnet.net is destined to be remembered alongside Rothbard and Mises, Jefferson and Madison, Caesar and Octavian, Roosevelt and Churchill, Watson and Crick, Lennon and McCartney, Shakespeare and ...