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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a very sharp post up at the Scene that drives home a point I’ve been making for a while now. I agree entirely with his conclusion:
One of the reasons I don’t think of myself as a libertarian even though they’re the group whose actual policy preferences most closely mirror mine is because [...]
Filed under: economics, libertarianism, morality, taxation
Via a Hit & Run commenter, here’s an idea for a children’s story even worse than Silverstein’s:
I wonder if they could make it into a movie …
Filed under: libertarianism
So I’ve criticized the overeager use of the “S”-word before, and certainly shouldn’t have gone in for it so quickly last night. That said, I still don’t agree with Lee:
… what many people–not just those naive youngsters–conclude is that the market does not, left to its own devices, magically solve our “complex economic problems.” What [...]
Filed under: conservatism, libertarianism, politics
Radley Balko flags a Gene Healy column discussing the apparent statis- er, progressivism of the millennial generation. Radley adds:
If there’s an upside to this it’s that the first generation that can’t remember a time before the Internet does seem to at least to care about civil liberties. They tend to be anti-war, anti-drug war, cognizant [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, libertarianism, politics
Responding to this post and recalling an earlier comment of mine from a thread at TAS, Freddie writes:
… of course libertarian orthodoxy really does render most libertarians unwitting shills for corporate interests. Although also unintentionally so, the mainstream libertarian agenda is in effect largely a sop to corporate interests. If you could wave a magic [...]
Filed under: economics, libertarianism, politics
When I came across this New York Times article about large vegetable growers and other segments of the industrial food industry who are paying out of pocket to hire inspectors and implement production guidelines and safety standards that go beyond the FDA minimums, I figured it would be a great opportunity to crack some jokes [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food, government/law, libertarianism
Last Friday, Jonah Goldberg wrote a post at The Corner arguing that there is something “unlibertarian” about opponents of drug prohibition who use claims about the drug war’s disproportionate effects on blacks in an attempt to demonstrate its injustice. This post prompted a lengthy response from Reason’s Jacob Sullum, who helpfully showed up Goldberg’s claim [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, libertarianism
Via Jesse Walker, Kevin Carson has a great piece up at the P2P Foundation’s blog on government regulation and “radical monopoly”, with a particular focus on cartelization and the medical industry. Here’s Kevin’s comparison between the sort of deregulated, “open-source” system he favors and the mess we’ve presently got:
In an open-source healthcare system, someone might [...]
Filed under: government/law, health care, libertarianism
As a strong supporter of the legalization of marijuana, I sympathize entirely with Freddie’s frustration with Obama’s craptastic take on the subject from Wednesday night’s “town hall” meeting. That said, I’ve got to get something off my chest.
There is, I am comfortable saying, a whole host of good arguments in favor of legalizing pot. The [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, government/law, libertarianism
Over the weekend, Tim Carney and Rod Dreher both had very nice columns on the controversy over the push for the implementation of a National Animal Identification System and other food safety measures being pushed in Congress that would likely pose serious burdens for smaller farmers and other producers who are unable to take advantage [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food, government/law, libertarianism