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I’ve spent a good bit of the last two weeks on the road, or in the air, at FreedomFest in Las Vegas (libertarians, gambling, and semi-legal prostitution — what could go wrong?) and on a short trip to St. Louis. Between those excursions, it was production week for the new issue of TAC, which will [...]
From Paul Lyons’s American Conservatism: Thinking It, Teaching It:
This class began today with the assignment of the first paper — on fusionism — the handing out of an Ayn Rand selection from The Virtue of Selfishness, and a short discussion of her life and work. Then we began a lively, focused discussion carried over Tuesday [...]
Filed under: Liberty, Philosophy, Ron Paul
Bob Murphy has a thought-provoking column at Mises.org looking at whether, as deflationists like Mish Shedlock argue, credit should be considered virtually part of the money supply. It’s an important question, since credit expansion over the last 20-odd years has so been massive that a credit contraction will, according to the deflationists, constrict the money [...]
Filed under: economics
John Payne offers some thoughts on the case for secession. This is a popular topic among paleoconservatives and many libertarians — both groups like the decentralist implications of secession. The former (and some of the latter) feel great affinity for the old South, and the libertarians are acutely aware that secession is one of the [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty
For Independence Day, I thought I would re-present my review of Gordon Wood’s Revolutionary Characters,a book I highly recommend. The piece originally appeared in the June 19, 2006 issue of TAC; this version, edited from my original draft, is a bit different from the one that appeared in print.
It’s not one of my favorite reviews [...]
Reading the First Things blog can’t be good for my blood pressure. Jody Bottum’s colleague and sparring partner R.R. Reno turns out to be a localist who embraces Bottum’s misconstruction of localism — he, as much as Bottum, believes localism is ethnic:
A fully orbed life of virtue is necessarily ethnocentric. A modern conservative intellectual must [...]
Filed under: Philosophy
First Things editor Jody Bottum finds racism and Jew-hatred incipient in the politics of place (”…it’s always the Jews, isn’t it? Or the blacks, or the foreigners, or the diseased”), on the theory that place implies difference and difference means disharmony:
So what is this problem at the root of localism? Part of it involves the [...]
Filed under: Philosophy