Posted on October 4th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
No, but this is what people who connect Hobbes and liberalism have in mind (from de Jasay’s masterpiece, The State):
Recalling the regimes of Walpole, Metternich, Melbourne or Louis Philippe (only more so), with a blend of indifference, benign neglect and a liking for amenities and comforts, the capitalist state must have sufficient hauteur not to [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
Very interesting piece on Thomas Hobbes in The Nation, all the more interesting for being a blend of fairly astute political philosophy and a hard-left political agenda. I’ve been intending to read up on the Hobbes literature — in the past few weeks I’ve acquired Hobbes on Civil Association (Oakeshott), Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Skinner, [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
A liberal columnist for the Badger Herald at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen the future, and it’s Ron Paul:
Over the past 40 years, the trend among young political activists has been the same: The young Left has fought the older generations of the Right (perhaps because it’s simply more fun), with no thought [...]
Filed under: Liberty, Ron Paul, academia
Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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 [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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 [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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 [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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 [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
In my free time, what there is of it, away from TAC I’ve been helping my friends in Young Americans for Liberty put together a new journal, the Young American Revolution, or YAR for short. The second issue is out now, with original essays by Jim Antle, David Gordon, Dylan Hales (on what the New [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
The project — well, a project — that has been taking my spare time away from ye olde Tory Anarchist is the new publication of Young Americans for Liberty, the Young American Revolution, for which I’m serving as editorial director. The first issue will be out in about a week and features, among other things, [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
A few recent events: On Tuesday of last week I delivered a talk in support of resolution “America Is Not Exceptional” at the Yale Political Union. I baited the audience as best I could, eliciting many hisses (which was a delight) while still prevailing — the resolution passed 32-27. It was an honor and a [...]
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