Online Stuff--Videos, Books, Periodicals, etc.

Regular at Antiwar.com and longtime columnist for the Orange County Register, Alan Bock, has entered the world of blog. Good for him! His grasp of foreign policy is the sanest that I'm aware of.

Not only do I blog here and my CLASSical Liberalism website, but I have two other websites dedicated to important libertarian figures: Spencer Heath and Charles T. Sprading. You may find informative material there unavailable elsewhere. I am in the process of adding a number of important material on each.

NockFest
Google Books continues to amaze me. I just came across Albert Jay Nock and Francis Neilson's The Freeman for 9/15/1920-3/1921. Now, if they only get the rest online! Nock's wonderful collection of commentaries, The Book of Journeyman (1930, 1967), is now available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, courtesy of the Mises Institute, as is his introduction to Our Enemy, The State, "Life, Liberty, and...", "The Criminality of the State", Jefferson, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man and his marvelous, On Doing the Right Thing and Other Essays. This is wonderful for all of you who are unfamiliar with Nock's writings. I have had all of these for many years and treasure the style, wisdom and utter brilliance of Nock at his prime. Now all of you get to enjoy it as well!

In addition, The United States Brewers' AssociationYearbook for 1915 has a wonderful Convention Address (pp. 107-114) by Nock, as does the 1916 Yearbook with Prohibition in Kansas (pp. 85-98) and Prohibition and Civilization (pp. 99-104). Also located are Nock's The Value to the Clergyman of Training in the Classics (pp. 171-179) in Latin and Greek in American Education: With Symposia on the Value of Humanistic Studies (1911) by Francis Willey Kelsey.

Actual Ethics (Cambridge U. Press, 2006)by James R. Otteson is a great treatment of ethics from the standpoint of classical liberalism.

The Bruno Leoni Institute is up and running, including mp3 files from a 1961 Mont Pèlerin Society conference of talks by Leoni and Friedrich A. von Hayek, Wilhelm Roepke, Ludwig von Mises, Luigi Einaudi, Otto von Habsburg, Salvador de Madariaga, Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, Henry Hazlitt, Daniel Villey, Felix Morley and many others (hat tip to Tom Palmer).

Always on the lookout for new sources of online research, there are a number of videos online of note:

The documentary, Anarchism in America (1981) is available now on the web. Murray Bookchin, Karl Hess, a rare clip of Emma Goldman, Mildred Loomis, the Dead Kennedys and others are in the film which discusses anarchist history, left anarchists and individualist anarchists.

Hat tip to Wendy McElroy on this one: The great documentary, Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists, is now on Google Video. It's a historical commentary on the Jewish Anarchist movement in New York City from the early 1900s through the mid-20th century. As Wendy says,

"My favorite anarchist historian Paul Avrich is the documentary's first commentator and he reappears throughout the presentation. I was particularly pleased to learn more about Freie Arbeiter Stimme, a radical periodical published in Yiddish, which associated with Benjamin Tucker's Liberty. What fun!"

Other finds:

Here are a half-dozen Milton Friedman discussions:

• PBS Uncommon Knowledge- Take it to the Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (1999)
• PBS Uncommon Knowledge - Milton Friedman on the State of the Union (1999).
• PBS Uncommon Knowledge- The Economics of the War on Terrorism w. Milton Friedman. (2001)
• Milton Friedman on Icelandic State Television in 1984.
• Charlie Rose - Economist Milton Friedman (2005)
• Open Mind - Milton Friedman on Limited Government.

Marc Stevens - Adventures In Legal Land.

The Libertarian Alternative (run by the LP) has a nice collection of interviews. Mark Selzer is an accomplished interviewer and easy with the interviewees:

• The Libertarian Alternative - Libertarian Economists. Mark Selzer speaks with Edward Stringham and Benjamin Powell.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Libertarian Veterans. Mark Selzer and Victoria Hughot interview two veterans, Bruce Dovner and Nolayan Herdegen.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Sue Jeffers. Mark Selzer interviews Sue Jeffers.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Authority Figures. Mark Selzer interviews Sharon Presley.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Fighting Taxes. Mark Selzer interviews Lawrence Samuels.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Harry Browne (2005). Mark Selzer interviews Harry Browne.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Antiwar.com. Mark Selzer interviews Eric Garris.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Russell Means. Mark Selzer interviews Russell Means.
• The Libertarian Alternative - The Iraq War and the PATRIOT Act. Mark Selzer interviews David Horowitz and Bob Barr.
• The Libertarian Alternative - David Brin. Mark Selzer interviews David Brin.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Richard Mack. Mark Selzer interviews Richard Mack.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Healing Our World. Mark Selzer interviews Mary Ruwart.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Questions About Drug Testing. Mark Selzer and Victoria Hughot interviews Dr. Sandor Woren
• The Libertarian Alternative - New York Libertarians. Mark Selzer interviews John Clifton.
• The Libertarian Alternative - The Free State Project. Mark Selzer interviews Amanda Phillips.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Ayn Rand and Objectivism. Mark Selzer interviews Nathaniel Branden.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Ballot Access News. Mark Selzer interviews Richard Winger.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Alternative Medicine. Mark Selzer and Janet Mulligan interviews Dr. Jay Cavanaugh.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Bureaucrash. Mark Selzer interviews Heather Talley.
• The Libertarian Alternative - How should we fight the war on terror? Mark Selzer interviews Joseph Miranda
• The Libertarian Alternative - International Society for Individual Liberty. Mark Selzer interviews Vince Miller.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Libertarians and the War in Iraq. Mark Selzer and Angela Keaton interview Joe Cobb.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Taking Responsibility. Mark Selzer interviews Nathaniel Branden.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Medical Choice. Mark Selzer and Dusti Taylor interviews Allison Margolin.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Elected Libertarians. Mark Selzer interviews Mark Dierolf.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Ed Thompson. Mark Selzer interviews Ed Thompson.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Harry Browne (2004). Mark Selzer interviews Harry Browne.
• The Libertarian Alternative - The Drug War. Mark Selzer interviews Jim Gray

• The Libertarian Alternative - Libertarian Economists. Mark Selzer speaks with Edward Stringham and Benjamin Powell.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Libertarian Veterans. Mark Selzer and Victoria Hughot interview two veterans, Bruce Dovner and Nolayan Herdegen.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Sue Jeffers. Mark Selzer interviews Sue Jeffers.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Authority Figures. Mark Selzer interviews Sharon Presley.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Fighting Taxes. Mark Selzer interviews Lawrence Samuels.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Harry Browne (2005). Mark Selzer interviews Harry Browne.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Antiwar.com. Mark Selzer interviews Eric Garris.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Russell Means. Mark Selzer interviews Russell Means.
• The Libertarian Alternative - The Iraq War and the PATRIOT Act. Mark Selzer interviews David Horowitz and Bob Barr.
• The Libertarian Alternative - David Brin. Mark Selzer interviews David Brin.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Richard Mack. Mark Selzer interviews Richard Mack.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Healing Our World. Mark Selzer interviews Mary Ruwart.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Questions About Drug Testing. Mark Selzer and Victoria Hugot interviews Dr. Sandor Woren
• The Libertarian Alternative - New York Libertarians. Mark Selzer interviews John Clifton.
• The Libertarian Alternative - The Free State Project. Mark Selzer interviews Amanda Phillips.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Ayn Rand and Objectivism. Mark Selzer interviews Nathaniel Branden.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Ballot Access News. Mark Selzer interviews Richard Winger.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Alternative Medicine. Mark Selzer and Janet Mulligan interviews Dr. Jay Cavanaugh.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Bureaucrash. Mark Selzer interviews Heather Talley.
• The Libertarian Alternative - How should we fight the war on terror? Mark Selzer interviews Joseph Miranda
• The Libertarian Alternative - International Society for Individual Liberty. Mark Selzer interviews Vince Miller.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Libertarians and the War in Iraq. Mark Selzer and Angela Keaton interview Joe Cobb.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Taking Responsibility. Mark Selzer interviews Nathaniel Branden.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Medical Choice. Mark Selzer and Dusti Taylor interviews Allison Margolin.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Elected Libertarians. Mark Selzer interviews Mark Dierolf.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Ed Thompson. Mark Selzer interviews Ed Thompson.
• The Libertarian Alternative - Harry Browne (2004). Mark Selzer interviews Harry Browne.
• The Libertarian Alternative - The Drug War. Mark Selzer interviews Jim Gray

Alexander Korda's Things to Come based on the H.G. Wells socialist utopia is online. If you are not familiar with this, sit down and get ready to be surprised.

David Zieger's Sir No Sir!, a great anti-war film on the opposition within the ranks. Watch it with someone who was in the military, even if they are pro-war. It will bring back memories which an ex-soldier needs to remember.

First Run Features has all of their trailers online, including ones for Saccco & Vanzetti, and also includes the Human Rites Watch movies

Finally, Google now has a Patent Search engine, superior to the U.S. Patent office's one. I remember the weeks that I spent doing a patent search on all of Spencer Heath's patents at the Los Angeles Public Library in the 1970's. The patent room was all but hidden up a flight of tiny wooden stairs in a terribly uncomfortable little room. Now, all I have to do is turn on my computer and with a few clicks, I have instant access to all of the information I need.

On a personal note, this has not been a good year for me. My health as continued on a downward slope and am now wheelchair-bound. My beautiful 14 year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was killed in a hit and run (driver never identified) in October. And I thought it was hard enough when my son, James, was killed by a drunk driver four years ago on a Los Angeles freeway while he was on his way to his house. I thought the worst day of my life was the day when Elizabeth was killed. I was wrong. It's been every day since. Christmas and New Year's are pagan celebrations of the end of the old gods and the birth of new ones. Perhaps the new gods will smile down upon me and my family. It would be a welcome improvement.

Just a thought.
Just Ken
CLASSical Liberalism