Liberty and Power

• Oct 17, 2006
  

  Everything You Wanted to Know about North Korea

  by Liberty and Power

  Gary Leupp has the scoop here. He makes a good case that North Korea is a religious state rather than a Marxist-Leninist one.
  
  He concludes:"In any case, the confrontation here isn't between 'freedom' and 'one of the world's last communist regimes,' nor even between fundamentalist Christian Bush and Kim Il-songist Kim Jong-il. It's between a weird hermetic regime under threat and determined to survive in its small space, us
  

• Oct 16, 2006
  

  Politics Against Politics

  by Liberty and Power

  [cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]

  I’ve argued, some would say ad nauseam, that the libertarian struggle against statist oppression needs to be integrated (or re-integrated) with traditionally left-wing struggles against various sorts of non-state oppression such as patriarchy, racism, bossism, etc.

  My position finds support, albeit in a less than straightforward way, in Ro

  

• Oct 15, 2006
  

  Drug Testing

  by Liberty and Power

  In 1998 researchers at Le Moyne University estimated (see note 14) that each year one billion dollars was being spent to drug test twenty million American workers. Since then the market for drug tests has greatly expanded from the workplace to the home. A recent Fox News segment featuring a debate between Kris Krane Executive Director of Students for a Sensible Drug Po
  

• Oct 15, 2006
  

  Time to Get Rid of the State?

  by Liberty and Power

  The practical case for free-market anarchism grows stronger each day. The proliferation of nuclear weapons, which so often is used as a reason for more government power, is actually grounds for abolishing the state altogether. (See this New York Times article

• Oct 14, 2006
  

  The 101st Fighting Keyboarders

  by Liberty and Power

  

  Using the ever reliable Ken Burns template,"The 101st Fighting Keyboarders" is an often hilarious documentary send-up of such warblogs and warbloggers as Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, Powerpoint, Little Green Footballs, and Ann Coulter (not really a blogger).

  Click here to view.

  One factual flaw, as Justin Raimondo

• Oct 13, 2006
  

  The Just Market

  by Liberty and Power

  Edmund Phelps, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in economics, published an inspiring, yet frustrating article,"Dynamic Capitalism," in the Wall Street Journal the other day. (Read it here.) In the article he seeks to establish the justice of entrepreneurship -- a worthy objective indeed. He spends the first part praising entrepreneurial" capitalism" and the dynamism it produces. Dynamism, he write

  

• Oct 13, 2006
  

  Dalton Got His Gun

  by Liberty and Power

  

  History surveys of the 1940s and 1950s have often lionized the victims the anti-Communist witchhunts. They more rarely mention, however, those prominent victims of this Second Red Scare who were victimizers during the less publicized "Brown Scare of World War II. Dalton Trumbo, who went to jail for several mont

  

• Oct 11, 2006
  

  Britain in the Twentieth Century: A Revisionist Perspective

  by Liberty and Power

  I've just come across Gwydion M. Williams perceptive article on the British Empire and the fifty-years struggle to save Britain's global hegemony.
  
  His analysis of British foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century strikes me as very much to the point and I commend his essay for our readers' attention.
  
  You may also wish to check out his essay on

• Oct 10, 2006
  

  Center for a Stateless Society - press release

  by Liberty and Power

  Anarchists launch major media offensive
  October 10, 2006
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  A tiny think tank has set out on a project to provide ongoing news commentary in order to promote their set of views, known as market anarchism.

  AUBURN, ALABAMA – October 10, 2006 – Center for a Stateless Society – The Molinari Institute, a market anarchist think tank, today launched a new media e

  

• Oct 10, 2006
  

  Wanted: More Signers for AHA Free Speech Resolution

  by Liberty and Power

  We still need more signers for our resolution(shown below) opposing the use of speech codes to restrict academic freedom. It will be voted on at the January business meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta. To get the resolution on the agenda, however, twenty-five paid-up members have to sign before October 13.

  Write as soon as possible to David T. Beito at dbeito@bama.ua.edu if you are willing to sign and belong to the AHA.

  RESOLUTION ON SPEECH CODES AND