The Left

Gregory on “Why Capitalism Is Worth Defending”

by Stephan Kinsella July 29, 2011

The prolific Anthony Gregory has a great article up today at LewRockwell.com, “Why Capitalism Is Worth Defending.” His view is that capitalism is “the greatest engine of material prosperity in human history, the fount of civilization, peace, and modernity.” As part of his argument he rejects the calls of some fellow travelers to drop the word [...]

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Mises on the Beach

by Wirkman Virkkala July 3, 2011

When Michelle Bachmann confessed to taking the writings of Ludwig von Mises with her on vacation, I assumed she used the august Austrian economist as a soporific — not because Mises isn’t worth reading, or not exciting to read (I can’t tell you how my heart pounded when I first unleashed myself onto The Ultimate [...]

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More on Dorothy Day, Anarchist

by Ryan McMaken May 4, 2011

I mentioned Dorothy Day in passing in yesterday’s post. Specifically I named her as part of the Catholic pacifist-anarchist tradition. A couple of readers asked about whether or not Day was actually an anarchist, as they had always heard she was a socialist. I referred one reader to a short article on Day that noted [...]

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Sigh. Catholic Priest Whoops It Up For Unconstitutional Military Assassinations

by Ryan McMaken May 3, 2011

One thing about Catholics is that, when it comes to partisan politics, they’re split pretty evenly. Only deeply ignorant people lump Catholics in with the “Religious Right” since about half of them are on the religious left. Many are admirably antiwar, and of course, there is even a nice anarchist pacifist tradition, in which one [...]

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Continued confusion over the “rights” of corporations

by Akiva April 12, 2011

Voters in Madison, Wisconsin recently approved a measure asserting that corporations do not have constitutional rights. The measure correctly asserts that only individuals have rights.  But then it proceeds to state that corporations do not.  This is collectivism at its finest.  A corporation doesn’t act.  People act.  Although the “corporation” doesn’t have rights as an entity, each [...]

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There’s no room for violence in our political discourse?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 13, 2011

There’s no room for violence in our political discourse? But politics is merely war by other means. Political discourse within the state inherently involves the threat of violence and is ultimately backed by it.

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Economics, ethics, and Krugman

by Wirkman Virkkala January 10, 2011

Reading Paul Krugman is like picking at a scab: You know you should probably just let it alone, but there’s pleasure in picking the Krugman rough redness. So you read. So you bleed. So you flick away the droplets and the clots. I could hardly avoid his recent post, “Economics and Morality,” in part because [...]

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