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  • 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

  • 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


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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


  • 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

  • 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


  • 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

  • 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


  • 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


  • What is Columbus Day doing to "Americans"?

    by Liberty and Power

    A new article by Scott Richard Lyons of St. John Fisher College:
    "What Columbus Day does to Americans?"

    Excerpt:
    Indeed, one might observe that these Columbian imperialist values are diametrically opposed to the more Jeffersonian American values of democracy, liberty and equality.... There is no room for American Indian history, the past that we're still living today, in official commemorations of Colu

  • Simon Jenkins on the Hypocrisy of Jack Straw

    by Liberty and Power

    As some of you may be aware, last week Jack Straw, a senior member of the Labour government, called for Moslem women in Britain to discard the burqa. Straw was formerly Home Secretary and latterly Foreign Secretary, and is now Leader of the House of Commons. In other words, he has been an important member of the cabinet since Tony Blair became prime minister. In today's Sunday Times Simon Jenkins has written a perceptive col

  • History Lesson Lost

    by Liberty and Power

    Call me nostalgic, but I still have a thing for the Articles of Confederation. Maybe it's the enticement of forbidden fruit. In the government schools I attended little if anything was said about the eight years during which the United States of America were governed under the Articles. The curriculum writers must have had a good reason for not devoting class time to that period. What didn't they want us to know?
    Read the rest of this week's

  • Timothy Thomas Fortune

    by Liberty and Power

    "As an American citizen, I feel it born in my nature to share in the fullest measure all that is American...feeling the full force of the fact that while we are classed as Africans, just as the Germans are classed as Germans, we are in all things American citizens. American freemen....We do not ask the American government or people for charity...We do not

  • the "one book" meme

    by Liberty and Power

    I've been tagged! Here goes.

    1. One Book That Changed My Life: It's hard to choose just one, because there have been so many. I'll go with The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt, the book that introduced me to aesthetic individualism.

    2. One Book I've Read More Than


  • URGENT: Twenty-Five AHA Members Needed to Sign Free Speech Resolution

    by Liberty and Power

    At the upcoming Atlanta conference of the American Historical Association, a group of historians will propose a strongly worded resolution (shown below) opposing the use of speech codes to restrict academic freedom. The vote will take place at the business meeting for the general membership on Saturday, January 6, 2007 in the Fulton/Cobb Room at the Atlanta Hilton.

    To get the resolution on the agenda, however, twenty-five paid-up members have to sign it before October 13.

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