Against Politics

Toward a depoliticized society

Libertarian centralism

“Centralization is ordinarily a sign of social decadence.” Russell Kirk From a “skeptical empiricist” perspective (to use  Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s useful phrase) neither “rationalist”  nor public policy approaches to libertarianism are particularly credible.  But what is quite remarkable about current debates about “libertarian centralism” is that libertarians associated with rationalist schools of thought (Austrian economics, [...]