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- Aug 11, 2011
Robert Bidinotto's <em>Hunter</em>
Ayn Rand objectivists are more neocon than libertarian.Podcast episode for 11 August 2011.
- Aug 4, 2011
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007)
Wilson's best known work was Illuminatus - an arcane conspiracy-based cult classic that won libertarian futurist awards. Wilson referred to his own beliefs as generalized agnosticism about everything.The biggest success of his freelance career was this three-volume satirical novel.
- Jul 28, 2011
Conjectural History
Historians must use Rand's sense of life to make their best guess of how things happened when the past facts are lost.All history is partly conjectural, because our knowledge is always limited.
- Jul 20, 2011
Eight Ways to Run the Country
Riggenbach's review of Mitchell's book is mixed because he does not find a fit with the political perspectives described as individualist or paleolibertarian.
- Jul 14, 2011
Libertarianism and Psychology II
Nathaniel Brandon and Sharon Presley saw the importance of psychology and the self-esteem movement for libertarians. People who lack self-confidence aren't likely to support efforts to achieve a free society, or even to understand why a free society is a desirable goal.
- Jul 7, 2011
Libertarian Journalism in the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Ronald Hamowy and Ralph Raico were the best libertarian journalists. Their efforts included the quality publications New Individualist Review and Inquiry.It is not uncommon to see mainstream journalists accused of not bothering to read Hayek before they sit down to write about him.
- Jun 30, 2011
Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)
Forerunner of the Austrian School, Bastiat contributed high quality popularization of such legal and economic ideas as legalized plunder, everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else and the fable of the broken window in which what is not seen is as important or more than what is seen.Ludwig von Mises opined in the 1920s that Bastiat's "critique of all protectionist and related tendencies is even today unsurpassed. The protectionists and interventionists have not been able to advance a single word in pertinent and objective rejoinder."
- Jun 22, 2011
Libertarianism and Psychology
Psychologist Timothy Leary held LSD to be therapy. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz held that mental illness was a myth. Both libertarians opposed the war on drugs. Szasz and Leary often chose somewhat different public issues to speak out on, but both displayed an unwavering commitment to human liberty.
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