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Getcha Evil Here! Getcha War Here!

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Last Friday I presented a revised version of my talk “On Making Small Contributions to Evil” to the Auburn Philosophical Society. This coming weekend I’ll be...

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Power Trip: Will Hobbesian War Lead to Libertarian Utopia?

What follows is a review of John Sullivan’s recent book Notes From the Aboveground. In the interests of full disclosure: the author is paying me to review his book. Conceivably, this could lead me to...

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Get Your Hands Off My Spencer!

Joel Schlosberg tells me I’m cited in Jonah Goldberg’s one-sided screed Liberal Fascism (a book that, I gather, quite correctly points out the fascist aspects of the statist left but studiously...

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Spencer Not Defamed Today!

Damon Root has a nice piece on Herbert Spencer; plus, he cites me! (Conical hat tip to Joel Schlosberg.)

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Herbert Spencer’s Hat Trick

A correspondent writes: Saints be praised! Herbert Spencer has received a surprisingly positive and balanced assessment in a ‘popular’ source. 2012 must be the end of time! The article is actually...

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Part of an Original Crowd

Sheldon has a nice post on why proper individualism is not atomistic – wherein he cites Aristotle, Spencer, and … me! In related news, I’ve argued elsewhere that it is the least atomistic forms of...

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 22: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued

Greetings from Seattle! My entry in the aforementioned Cato Unbound symposium is now up. It’s titled “In Praise of Bleeding Heart Absolutism.”

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 26: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued Some More

My latest contribution to the symposium is finally up, as is a “best of the blogs” roundup.

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 28: Groundpounders at War

This land is your land
 this land is my land
 looks like one of us
 has a fake deed to this land — Dave Barry (?) This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we...

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Spencer, Hodgskin, and Land Rights

As “everyone knows,” Herbert Spencer was a reactionary defender of capitalism and an opponent of socialism, while Thomas Hodgskin was a proto-Marxian defender of socialism and an opponent of...

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To Rule the Earth

I make a cameo appearance in George Smith’s latest post on the Herbert Spencer / Henry George debate.

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Boiling the Jaywalkers

So this guy made £35,000 selling forged celebrity autographs, and they caught him. Good. But they’ve also charged him with copyright violations, which is crap; and they’ve decided to lock him in a cage...

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Spencer Unbound!

I recently participated in a “Liberty Matters” online discussion on Herbert Spencer, with George H. Smith, Alberto Mingardi, and David M. Levy, and edited by Sheldon Richman. Read it here. If you...

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Herbert Spencer’s Hat Trick

A correspondent writes: Saints be praised! Herbert Spencer has received a surprisingly positive and balanced assessment in a ‘popular’ source. 2012 must be the end of time! The article is actually...

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Part of an Original Crowd

Sheldon has a nice post on why proper individualism is not atomistic – wherein he cites Aristotle, Spencer, and … me! In related news, I’ve argued elsewhere that it is the least atomistic forms of...

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 22: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued

Greetings from Seattle! My entry in the aforementioned Cato Unbound symposium is now up. It’s titled “In Praise of Bleeding Heart Absolutism.”

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 26: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued Some More

My latest contribution to the symposium is finally up, as is a “best of the blogs” roundup.

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 28: Groundpounders at War

This land is your land
 this land is my land
 looks like one of us
 has a fake deed to this land — Dave Barry (?) This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we...

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Spencer, Hodgskin, and Land Rights

As “everyone knows,” Herbert Spencer was a reactionary defender of capitalism and an opponent of socialism, while Thomas Hodgskin was a proto-Marxian defender of socialism and an opponent of...

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To Rule the Earth

I make a cameo appearance in George Smith’s latest post on the Herbert Spencer / Henry George debate.

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