Anti-Statism

Don’t you ever interrupt me while I’m reading a book, Pig!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 28, 2011

Amusing bibliophile-parody music video — I’m Reading a Book — by Julian Smith:

eBook: Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed

by Akiva September 29, 2010

Understanding basic economics is crucial for all libertarians. No other field offers as clear and irrefutable a case for liberty. Indeed, statism draws much of its support from the public’s flawed understanding of economics. Even libertarians are occasionally led astray by flawed economic reasoning. A friend recently brought a book designed to combat such flaws [...]

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(Statist) Politics as Household Management

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 16, 2010

In a previous post, Voting, Moral Hazard, and Like Buttons, I discussed the moral hazards of voting and why democracy does not legitimize the state or protect our liberty. I also discussed how statist democracy, particularly representative democracy, is manipulative and conducive to top-down central planning of society. (Statist) politics tends to reduce all basic [...]

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Against Political Panglossianism

by Wirkman Virkkala September 13, 2010

I offer to readers a term of my coinage: polidicy. I construct it as “theodicy” was constructed, and I do so in the spirit of the copycat. A theodicy is a vindication of divine goodness in the context of the existence of evil. It is an important theological concept, and you will find theodicies embedded [...]

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Voting, Moral Hazard, and Like Buttons

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 1, 2010

I was reading Sarah Lacy’s “If You’ve Got Social Media Fatigue, UR DOIN IT WRONG” on TechCrunch and was reminded of a passage from Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay “Civil Disobedience” that I discuss in chapter 6 of my dissertation. First the passage from Lacy’s article: Sometimes metrics can be a bad thing and beware of [...]

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Regarding Libertarian Strategy: A Reply to Ross Kenyon

by Akiva August 31, 2010

Although I find Kenyon’s analysis of the radical socialists interesting, ultimately I disagree with his categorization of libertarianism’s 3 options: Libertarians can allow themselves to be absorbed into the Republican Party and work to expand the Liberty caucus. Libertarians can abandon the Republican Party to work exclusively through the Libertarian Party. Libertarians can jettison electoral politics altogether and refuse to [...]

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Rachel Maddow the Accidental Libertarian

by Matt Mortellaro August 21, 2010

I just recently watched The Daily Show‘s interview of Rachel Maddow from last April (embedded below) and couldn’t help but comment. She proposed two rules for public discourse: 1. “Don’t lie” and 2. “Don’t threaten to shoot people or encourage the shooting of people.” I was surprised – Maddow and I rarely end up in [...]

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