The Right

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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Is Libertarianism a Gnostic or Utopian Political Movement?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 24, 2011

This post is excerpted and adapted from the concluding chapter of my dissertation, wherein I addressed two related objections to libertarianism in general and to my account of Aristotelian liberalism in particular: utopianism and gnosticism, the latter being sort of a theological version of the former. Does the theory of virtue ethics and natural rights [...]

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The Tyrant Rehabilitation Party

by Brian Martinez February 3, 2011

Aside from his legacy as one of the giants of the Austrian school and modern anarcho-capitalism, Murray Rothbard was for a time a political activist, one of the founding members of the Libertarian Party, which got its start in the basement of David Nolan’s home some 40 years ago.  Rothbard’s radicalism kept the LP honest [...]

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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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Mexico: The War Party’s New Target?

by William N. Grigg November 27, 2010

For decades, some elements of the Right (occasionally abetted by people who should have known better) have peddled the notion that Mexico has created a vast and well-organized “fifth column” within the United States dedicated to La Reconquista — the re-conquest of territories seized by the U.S. during the Mexican-American War. In this scenario, non-assimilated [...]

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Article: What Is To Be Done? — A Comment on Angelo Codevilla’s “Ruling Class”

by Editor November 7, 2010

In his paper “America’s Ruling Class – and the Perils of Revolution” Professor Angelo Codevilla offers an excellent analysis of the causes and forms of government encroachment into the basic traditional liberties of Americans, and a very good sketch of the reasons why big government ideology succeeded in imposing its tenets upon the country, despite overwhelming [...]

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