Libertarian Miscellany


My Interview on Liberalism in Die Presse, Austria’s premier quality paper

My interview (“The Welfare State is not Sustainable”) with Gerhard Meszaros of Die Presse (formerly Die Neue Freie Presse) has appeared. Those who read German may find it and the…

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My Interview on Liberalism in Die Presse, Austria’s premier quality paper

My interview (“The Welfare State is not Sustainable”) with Gerhard Meszaros of Die Presse (formerly Die Neue Freie Presse) has appeared. Those who read German may find it and the…

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So Courageous

When looking (in order to answer a query from a commenter) for a link to the what one could call the “objectively pro-war”* ideologue Justin Raimondo’s use of the terms…

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Much Discussion of Whether It Is a Good Thing to Kill American Soldiers….

After a member of the Lewrockwell.com blog posted a rejoinder (of sorts) to my pointing out (1, 2) the immorality of another lewrockwellite calling for (or offering a toast to)…

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Calls to Kill American Soldiers

Another call (this time from Japan, by way of Auburn, Alabama) for killing Amerian soldiers: Beneath pictures of two burned out U.S. tanks is this caption: A toast to the…

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Libertarianism Marches On

My friend George Angelov of the Institute for Market Economics (website is in English and Bulgarian) in Sofia, Bulgaria has just sent me a nice note with a link to…

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Cato Helps to Defeat Baseball Subsidies in D.C.

A Cato Institute study, “Caught Stealing: Debunking the Economic Case for D.C. Baseball,” got a lot of attention in the nation’s capital and seems to have sunk the hopes (of…

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Otsuka Responds (Very Inadquately) to a Comment

Michael Otsuka, author of Libertarianism Without Inequality, responded to a comment by my friend Paul Bogdanor in which Paul pointed out that Otsuka resorts to ad hominem attacks on libertarians…

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Something Is Rotting at the Periphery of the Libertarian Movement…..

What’s that terrible smell? It’s coming from a hatred of the United States that has become so strong that it has overpowered any lingering attachment to the ideas of liberty…

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Very strange Behavior from the LRC crowd

I (and some of my colleagues) received a very odd little message from a lewrockwell.com columnist named Daniel McAdams: From: McAdams, Daniel [Daniel.McAdams@mail.house.gov] Sent: Thu 12/9/2004 5:07 PM To: Tom…

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