Jesse Pyle wrote a counter-response to my response of his letter Thursday. While I would prefer not to write a counter-counter response in The Post, as the utility would be small and it’d annoy rather than spark interest, I feel I should make a few passing comments. His letter lacked additional substance while highlighting a …
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Harry Browne on government power
Harry Browne also has a great radio show, the archive of which is available on any torrent client.
Did “extreme rhetoric” cause the Arizona shooting?
This is a letter I wrote to the Post (the newspaper at Ohio University) in response to a letter today: As I began to read Jesse Pyle’s letter to the editor yesterday concerning the recent Arizona shooting, I had hope. Unfortunately, they were crushed within seconds. Mr. Pyle asserts that the question of blame …
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Podcasts on Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorov, Educator An interesting Liberarian Tradition podcast by Jeff Riggenbach discussing Frank Chodorov, specifically his opinion on how and why individuals are individualists or socialists. [18:23] Also worth your time is Riggenbach’s earlier podcast on Frank Chodorov, Non-voter. [19:34] Transcript. A new blog: Free Market Mojo.
A thought on greed before bed
Depending on which libertarian one asks, my employment by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the most or least libertarian thing I could possibly do, or it falls somewhere in between. Anyhow. I worked on the 24th and, in my area, Wal-Mart was the last store to close (8 p.m.). A few of my co-workers attributed the …
Doherty and Friedman
I’ve been busy with work, Henry Hazlitt and Kurt Vonnegut to write much of any substance. In lieu of anything slightly original or badly plagiarized, I present Milton Friedman dissecting the myth of the free lunch, and an excerpt of Brian Doherty discussing conservatism and libertarianism. Radicals for Capitalism is Doherty’s fantastic book on the …
Links and a new Hayek video
The International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. is fast approaching: register today! Two blogs to follow: Morgan Polotan and Nate Kelly. A good article by Reason’s Matt Welch on the No Labels movement. The UK-based Institute for Economic Affairs released a new report on the need for increased school competition and for-profit schools. …
10 Great Libertarian Works
Civil Disobedience-Henry David Thoreau In 21 pages, Henry David Thoreau changed my life. Civil Disobedience is a fantastic elucidation of American individualism and the necessity of an individual to follow his or her conscience no matter the consequences. “I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her …
Hayek on economic freedom
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rated higher and …
Saturday Videos
Writing a few posts, but for filler I’ll post a few videos. First is Barry Goldwater’s infamous quote from the 1964 Republican National Convention. Second is Milton Friedman discussing greed with Phil Donahue. Last is a hilarious video of Alex Jones…being Alex Jones.