All Entries in the "Scholarship" Category
The Greatest Libertarian Books
by N. Stephan Kinsella Austrian libertarians, more than most, should be acutely aware of the impossibility of coming up with a truly objective “top ten” list. Smith’s most valued book may be far down on Jones’s subjective rankings. Nonetheless, we forge ahead because such lists can be provocative, illuminating, and interesting. So in response to “The [...]
The Immorality of the Social Contract
by Alexandros A on Wed, 2012/04/18, Journal of Antistatist Studies Today there has been a lot of talk about a “Social Contract”. A contract that binds all people and is supposedly something all people must adhere to or else suffer punishment by the state. The Social Contract was a theory first espoused by political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau [...]
The NFL Draft and the Division of Labor
Tonight, the second-most-popular televised football broadcast of the year takes place from New York’s Radio City Music Hall. ESPN will broadcast round one of the NFL Draft, with the remaining rounds to be broadcast on Friday and Saturday. An estimated 40 million people will watch the draft, an event that even for the most interested [...]
Arguing with Statists: How Statism Obfuscates Good Intent with Political Objectives
Obfuscation of intent in political objectives is a hallmark of statism and one of the primary methods by which statist politicians will push forward their own careers or the statist agenda, cogently or not. This occurs on both the left and the right of the statist political spectrum. These misunderstandings in intent also happen to [...]
Murray Rothbard’s critique of Samuel Edward Konkin’s New Libertarian Manifesto
From Strategy of the New Libertarian Alliance,Number One, May Day 1981, 3-11, a critique of the New Libertarian Manifesto [NLM] by the late agorist theoretician, Samuel Edward Konkin III (1947-2004); reprinted as “The Anti-Party Mentality” in Libertarian Vanguard, Aug.-Sep. 1981. Rothbard dated his submission November 10, 1980. The political context within which he wrote may be dated, but not the [...]
Why the Republican Party Elected Lincoln
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo It is occasionally possible to see through the fog of mysticism, superstition, lies, and the romantic, happy-faced, floating butterfly vision of Abraham Lincoln that has been created by American court historians over the past century. One place to begin is the gem of a book by Pulitzer prize-winning Lincoln biographer David Donald [...]
George Bernard Shaw – On the body and soul
Too bad Shaw was an ardent socialist and a member of the Fabian Society. He had some pretty good insights. But I suppose that’s true for many socialist. Often times their hearts are in the right place, but they don’t seem to understand the difference between Free-Market Capitalism and Crony Capitalism. Also, many socialist seem [...]
‘Anarcho’-capitalism and Wage Slavery
Below is an argument addressing “Wage Slavery” presented from a Social Anarchist’s perspective. Any An-Caps out there with a different spin on this argument? I’d love to see your comments below!!! Basically, I’m arguing that from an economics standpoint, Anarcho-capitalism can only exist if wage slavery exists, and that the two are dependent on each [...]
BEWARE THE PSYCHOPATH, MY SON
By Clinton Callahan The following is largely extracted from two articles: Twilight of the Psychopaths, by Dr. Kevin Barrett and The Trick of the Psychopath’s Trade by Silvia Cattori. Both articles are recommended. Both articles reference the book Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes, by Andrzej Lobaczewski. Cattori’s article [...]
Jeffrey Tucker Joins Agora Financial, to Relaunch Laissez Faire Books
From Break the Matrix Baltimore, MD – Addison Wiggin, executive publisher of Agora Financial, announced that effective immediately, Jeffrey Tucker has joined the company and will serve as executive editor of recently-acquired Laissez Faire Books. Jeffrey Tucker is the author of several books including Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo (2010), and It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, [...]
Iran – Is This The Face of Evil? Decide for yourself…
By David Terry It’s amazing to me how many people inside our government try to portray other countries as the epitome of evil. Don’t get me wrong, there are bad people in charge of some countries, many would argue that ours is one of them, but bad leaders do not not equate to bad populations. Most people are [...]
