A Curious Case for Interventionism
Max Borders has written a very odd case for military interventionism and a hawkish foreign policy. Setting aside his tendency to overwrite (e.g., “Alas, were the threats of the twenty…
Political Theory
Books in My Briefcase
I’ve fallen way behind in my reading, but I did recently finish up a few books and start a few more. (I find that I usually have three to five…
How to Persuade? Find out in Quebec, October 28-31!
Rhetoric has gotten a bad rap for too long a time. It’s time to change that. I’ve arranged the upcoming Cato University seminar (in astonishingly beautiful old Quebec City, which…
Locke and Legitimacy
I’m ashamed to say that I’d never before read from start to finish John Locke’s First Treatise of Government. I finally got through it and learned a good bit. (I’d…
A Victory for Caesarism
It looks like a solid majority of Venezuelans who voted opted to retain a psychotic megalomaniac in office, on condition that he continue to loot the country and push it…
Multiculturalism
I’ve just posted as a PDF my essay on “Madison and Multiculturalism,” which appeared on the occasion of James Madison’s 250th birthday in James Madison and the Future of Limited…
More Collectivist and Statist Books
I’ve been reading through a small stack of recent collectivist and statist books. (I won’t mention them by name until I’ve published my reviews or given my comments on them.)…
A Rediscovered Essay on Natural Rights
I just came across an essay that I wrote for the May 1999 issue of Liberty magazine. It was in response to an essay by R. W. Bradford and appeared…
Liberty and Power Blog
I’m having trouble getting my blog management program to add a link (in the links on the left hand side of this site) to the Liberty & Power Group Blog….
I’m Against the Death Penalty in General, but…
The death penalty is one of those issues by which people tend to measure your moral character, rather than listen to your arguments. If you favor the death penalty, you’re…