War

Give or Take

by Wirkman Virkkala November 12, 2011

“All gave some, some gave all” — just another statist piety. Most lives in war are taken. Conscripts, especially, do not “give their lives for their country.” The state takes those lives. The day after Veterans Day seems as good as any to drop dangerous terms of art and speak in plain language.

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Somin on Gary Johnson and Ron Paul: A Reply

by Matt Mortellaro May 25, 2011

Ilya Somin over at The Volokh Conspiracy, it seems, is no more a fan of Ron Paul now than he was four years ago. His criticisms remain about the same. This time around, though, he’s got a candidate to contrast Paul with in Gary Johnson. His conclusion? Johnson is a better libertarian than Paul. My [...]

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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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Education as Peace

by Stephan Kinsella April 26, 2011

Researching an article on the Montessori educational method and its focus on peace (“Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism“), I came across this fascinating piece, “Education as Peace” (posted here with permission of N.A.M.T.A.), by John Bremer in a 1985 issue of the N.A.M.T.A. Quarterly. Bremer discusses Montessori’s lament that we have no science of peace. As she [...]

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Bastiat on Rome

by Stephan Kinsella April 18, 2011

Consider Bastiat’s comments on Rome and how–if you substitute for slavery the drug war and tax slavery–they apply to the modern US: What is to be said of Roman morality? And I am not speaking here of the relations of father and son, of husband and wife, of patron and client, of master and servant, [...]

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Is Obama Worse than Bush?

by Anthony Gregory March 16, 2011

The two are definitely in the same league, in absolute terms. Maybe Obama is Nixon to Bush’s LBJ, in that he is continuing and expanding upon his predecessor’s foreign and domestic enormities, deserving special ire for ramping them up, but with the president before still deserving special hatred for having started so many horrible policies. [...]

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