It’s no surprise that most people and news agencies glaze over the big question behind the Paradise Papers and Panama Papers: how did so much money get into the coffers of the elite in the first place (not to mention that which sits in their possessions from toilet paper and …
Why we should listen to anarchists in the age of Trump: story here Also of note: “Listen, Anarchist!” by David Harvey Springer responds to Harvey. Here is another response to Harvey on another matter. Harvey is ultimately an authoritarian in favor of final solutions, or statism anyway: …
Growing up in a family close to the “law” and military pushed me towards a skepticism of war and the rule of law, and later I wondered why I and almost nearly everyone I knew was raised on violent sources of nutrients….but I digress, yet don’t. There was a recent …
by Brainpolice 28 April 2008 The theory of a republic is essentially that, in contrast to democracy in which there is tyranny of the majority and in contrast to monarchy in which there is the rule of a single man or oligarchy, the law itself is what rules rather than …
After reading Exposing the Turnkey Tyranny I went down a rabbit hole for a minute, and share this: The sooner the state is smaller the better to deflate “the nation-state, now play[ing] fund-raiser for a new-brand power-concentrate.” …and we thought nation-state were a bad idea The government has granted …
source by Sheldon Richman The spreading Occupy Wall Street movement, despite a vague worldview and agenda, properly senses that something is dreadfully wrong in America. The protesters vent their anger at the big financial institutions in New York’s money district (as well as other big cities) for the housing and …
source by Mario Rizzo I consider myself both a libertarian and a classical liberal. I have been teaching a seminar in classical liberalism at the NYU Law School for six semesters. I am always asked about the difference. My answer is basically this. Classical liberalism is the philosophy of political …
What kind of libertarian are you? David ? The word “libertarian” has an interesting etymology. Today, it has become associated with its recent American interpretation; “libertarianism” denotes the limiting of state functions to defence of the nation and of individual legal and property rights. All other functions besides, or in some …
Intersectionality theory is meant to be a lens or way to recognize different forms of oppression, or rather the specifics, e.g. not just racism, but racism as experienced by someone that is also “old” or “age experienced” that might be experiencing ageism, not to mention sexism…and on, and on. It …
I’m not sure how bad it will get, but here is what Gillis thinks, and suggests: …We will face an America probably more reactionary and authoritarian than Italy under Berlusconi but probably less authoritarian than Germany under Hitler. The proper analogues are probably modern Hungary and Romania. Authoritarian populist “law …
