(See also Auto mechanic for President – The phony populism of Stephan Kinsella, reproduced below)

Palin “Reeks of Local” — The Dumb, Dumb Demonrats

Posted by Stephan Kinsella on August 30, 2008 11:55 PM

It’s long been my contention that if the demonrats would just jettison the relatively small elitist wing of their party–the condescending limousine liberals, the middle-America and normalcy-hating “urbane” and cosmpolitan condescending types–and just have a mildly populist, redistributionist, soft-socialist but culturally conservative platform, they could clean house and recapture all the inexplicably Republican Joe Sixpack types who are their natural constituency (but who are alienated by Barbra Streisand’s screeching). (See my How the Democrats Could Win.) But their stupidity knows no bounds. Why they need to anchor their image to the vapid Hollywood and libertine types is beyond me. Apparently abortion is all that matters to them. [click to continue…]

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Fleming on Woods

by Stephan Kinsella on March 8, 2010

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Fleming on Woods

Posted by Stephan Kinsella on June 23, 2004 11:34 PM

As Tom Woods recently noted, though he was too polite to name names, Thomas Fleming and others at Chronicles (related posts: 1, 2) have attacked his published views on Austrian economics and some economically illiterate pronouncements of certain popes.

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Reply to Feser on Block

Posted by Stephan Kinsella on July 13, 2006 03:41 PM

Ed Feser’s recent Contra the Rothbardians yet again: A Reply to Walter Block is the latest entry in the author’s growing separation from libertarianism.

I’m sure Block will reply, but I jotted a few notes down when reading his piece, and assemble some of them here. [click to continue…]

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Hilarious Higgs versus a befuddled author

March 8, 2010 Uncategorized

From my 2006 LRC post. As the editor of Libertarian Papers, I can relate to Higgs’s experience with such authors.
Heroic Higgs v. “diZerega”
Posted by Stephan Kinsella on December 7, 2005 03:03 PM

Oh, this is hilarious–see Robert Higgs’s replies to befuddled diZerega’s whining about Higgs rejecting one of diZerega’s articles for The Indendepent [...]

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Libertarian Papers: “Voltairine de Cleyre: More of an Anarchist than a Feminist?” by Steve J. Shone

March 4, 2010 Libertarian Papers

Libertarian Papers, Vol. 2 (2010), Art. #8: “Voltairine de Cleyre: More of an Anarchist than a Feminist?,” by Steve J. Shone.
Abstract: The recently rediscovered Michigan-born poet, essayist, and political philosopher, Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) has been celebrated by modern scholars as both an anarchist and a feminist. In this paper, however, it is argued that [...]

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Should Libertarians Oppose “Capitalism”?

March 3, 2010 Mises Blog Posts

Excellent post by Bryan Caplan, Should Libertarians Oppose “Capitalism”?, arguing against Sheldon Richman’s contention that we libertarians should not only not use “capitalism” as a synonym for favoring free markets, but that we should say we oppose “capitalism,” because of the term’s connotation of the historical collusion between business and the state.
I have myself for [...]

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Dancing on the Head of the Fair Use Pin

March 1, 2010 AgainstMonopoly.org Blog Posts

As noted in Justin Levine’s post, Dissent of the Day, a recent decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit holds “that a U.S. stamp which depicts a view of a public Korean War memorial violates the copyright of the sculptor who designed it.” The case involved the sculptures made by Gaylord, a [...]

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Rand on abolishing drug law and taxes

March 1, 2010 Uncategorized

A “friend” and I were discussing Rand — he said that though Rand said she opposed taxes, “eliminating taxes is among the last reforms Rand would make”. I don’t recall this–instead, I seem to recall she said this about abolishing drug prohibition. Anyone know where there is a cite or quote for either contention?

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Utilitarianism vs. Consequentialism

March 1, 2010 Uncategorized

In a facebook note, Quee Nelson writes about Mises the Utilitarian (appended below). I wonder if he was more of a consequentialist than a utilitarian. Below I collect some points I’ve made along these lines before:
As I noted on p. 50 of my Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law, reviewing Randy Barnett’s Structure of Liberty:
Barnett’s [...]

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Objectivists on Benevolence

March 1, 2010 Uncategorized

In a recent excellent facebook post by Quee Nelson (see appended below), she wrote:
Some of my best friends are Randians. They’re excellent people, and one of the things I love most about them (among many things), is the fact that, no matter how generous, compassionate, and charitable [...]

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Anarchy in Action

February 28, 2010 Uncategorized

(H/t Svolte Epocali and Robert Newson)

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Teaching Kids about Voting

February 28, 2010 Uncategorized

From Nov. 2008
Re: Teaching Kids about Voting
Posted by Stephan Kinsella on November 4, 2008 09:45 PM
Well, I followed through on my no-voting plan. Drove my 5 year old to the local polling station around 4pm. Very light crowd.
I signed in, and took him to the “booth”–not really a booth, just a [...]

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Mises on defeating socialism

February 28, 2010 Uncategorized

The world inclines to Socialism because the great majority of people want it.  They want it because they believe that Socialism will guarantee a higher standard of living.  The loss of this conviction would signify the end of Socialism.
–Mises, Socialism
Added to my favorite quotes… (h/t Bryan Caplan)

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Interview: Nina Paley on Copyright

February 27, 2010 AgainstMonopoly.org Blog Posts

TCLP 2010-02-24 Interview: Nina Paley

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
No listener feedback this week.
Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.
The feature this week is an interview with cartoonist and animator, Nina Paley, creator of “Sita Sings the [...]

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Legislation and Law in a Free Society

February 25, 2010 Mises Blog Posts

My article “Legislation and Law in a Free Society” was published today on Mises Daily (Feb. 25, 2010). An earlier version was published in 1995 in The Freeman, “Legislation and Law in a Free Society,” which was based on the longer “Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society,” Journal [...]

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Rothbard on Self-Sufficiency and the Division of Labor

February 24, 2010 Uncategorized

I was listening to the Mises Podcast and came across Rothbard’s wonderful 1972 lecture Scarcity and Choice. Around 34:09 to about 38:00 he discusses why specialization and the division of labor is useful, indeed essential, for civilization and human life and prosperity. He criticizes those intellectuals who still maintain that we should go back to [...]

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An Objectivist IP Argument for Taxation

February 24, 2010 Intellectual Property

Objectivists say they are against taxation; they say that you can fund a state by some kind of contract fee or lottery system. Obviously, you can’t, not without the state compelling membership or outlawing competitors, which permits them to charge monopoly prices which amounts to a tax.
But Objectivists are strongly pro-intellectual property (see Why Objectivists [...]

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Rockwell on IP and Emulation

February 21, 2010 Intellectual Property

I confess that I hate self-promotion but I cannot resist reposting comments like the following from the single most important libertarian thinker and organizer of our generation:
Daily Bell: One of the hardest issues to resolve from a free-market point of view is ownership of intellectual property. Can you tell our readers where you [...]

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Invasive Government and the Destruction of Certainty

February 18, 2010 Uncategorized

Invasive Government and the Destruction of Certainty, by Ridgway K. Foley Jr., The Freeman (January 1988 • Volume: 38 • Issue: 1).
An oldie but a goodie. I cited it in my Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society, Journal of Libertarian Studies 11 (Summer 1995). I met Foley [...]

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