Rand Paul and the anti-discrimination paradigm
Newsweek features an opinion piece about “The Difference Between Rand Paul’s Libertarianism and Traditional Segregationism.” If one thing has become clear from this piece (and the “civil rights” controversy that triggered it) it is how immensely unpopular strict liberalism is among opinion makers and many self-identified market liberals and conservatives. Libertarians of a more “left-wing” [...]
The destruction of self-help by state intervention
The Independent Institute’s quarterly Independent Review is a worthy publication. The journal produces well researched and innovative scholarly articles in the classical liberal tradition, avoiding excessive emphasis on “public policy libertarianism” on the one hand, and avoiding an exclusive emphasis on a single school of economic thought (such as Austrian Economics) on the other. The [...]
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- The presumption of death
- Cryonics and fear of the future
- Hard determinism and the problem of evil
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