Molinari Society Location Update
According to the printed program, the Molinari Society’s session at 9:00 tomorrow morning is in Seminar A. This is a cruel lie. We are actually in Phillips Boardroom 3. Okay, no problem, we turn to...
View ArticleSmashing Fences and Fascists
[cross-posted at BHL and POT] I’m excited to announce the publication of two new anthologies from C4SS (the Center for a Stateless Society): The Anatomy of Escape: A Defense of the Commons (357 pp.;...
View ArticleI Never Had a Secret Chart
In 1965, Murray Rothbard described socialism (or at least state socialism) as a “confused, middle-of-the road movement” that “tries to achieve Liberal ends,” such as “freedom, reason, mobility,...
View ArticleDespair Could Never Touch a Morning
The air was cool, and smelled of sage. It had the clarity that comes to southern California only after a Santa Ana wind has blown all haze and history out to sea – air like telescopic glass, so that...
View ArticleConscience of a Conservative
The full original French title of arch-conservative Joseph de Maistre’s 1821 Soirées, often translated as St. Petersburg Dialogues, is Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg; ou, Entretiens sur le...
View ArticleTurned Into Tongue and Trim Ones Too
This video about PragerU is worth watching, especially for its first half on conservative critiques of feminism. Pull quote: When women are lagging behind men, for example in the wages they get paid,...
View ArticleDo We Need Government? No, But You Need This Anthology
[cross-posted at BHL and POT] A long-awaited anthology I’m scheduled to appear in (with a couple of pieces on the question “Do We Need Government?”) has now, I hear, been split into two – one volume on...
View ArticleConvivencia, In My Dreams It Always Seems
[cross-posted at BHL and POT] Andalusia with fields full of grain I have to see you again and again A Muslim and a Christian playing dueling banjos (13th century). Mediæval Andalusia, or al-Andalus,...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
[cross-posted at BHL and POT] One of the tragic aspects of the emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861 was that while the serfs gained their personal freedom, the land – their means of production...
View ArticleMolinari Review I.2: What Lies Within?
[cross-posted at C4SS, BHL, and POT] The long-awaited second issue of the Molinari Review (the Molinari Institute’s interdisciplinary, open-access, libertarian academic journal) is here! Nearly twice...
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