Eric Zuesse So much in U.S.-&-allied ‘news’-reports about foreign affairs (such as regarding its coups and invasions and sanctions against ‘authoritarian’ Governments in order to “regime-change” them) is false or misleading, so that it took years for their deceived readers and viewers to recognize that there were no “WMD in Iraq,” and decades to recognize […]
State vs. Government: See Hoppe’s definition of the state in “The Nature of the State and Why Libertarians Hate It.” If government means the state, it’s criminal; but it clearly means something different: the governing institutions, law and order. The state has coopted government like it has coopted roads and transportation, money, education. But just […]
Murray Rothbard’s treatise, The Ethics of Liberty (New York: New York University Press, 1998) is online in a couple of obscure places, and some of its individual chapters or portions is available online in separate articles. I’ve listed below those I am aware of: pdf (pdf2) audiobook Hoppe’s Introduction: Murray N. Rothbard and the Ethics of […]
[Notice, he never gives any coherent reasons to some of the key ideas his argument relies on: –that fetuses have rights just b/c they “are human” –that the fetus is a trespasser (even though it was “invited” in most cases) –that when you evict a trespasser you have to use the gentlest manner possible (why?) […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 397. I was a guest last night (Oct. 25, 2022) on the Libertarian Podcast Review … podcast, ep. 70, with hosts Tyler Janke and Garbage Mane Andy. We discussed… well… Hoppe. They’re like—why are you always the one called on to defend Hoppe? I’m thinking—I dunno, you tell me. Related […]
Orientation The linear political spectrum is bankrupt! How does it explain why socialist China is making alliances with capitalist Russia and even with fundamentalist Saudi Arabia? Why is it that so-called socialist Social Democrats support imperialist United States rather than socialist China? Why is it that right-wing fundamentalist states like India and Brazil are supporting […]
Eric Zuesse In America, the only mainstream views of the war in Ukraine are fascist, but that breaks down into different types of fascism. The fascists who accept that they are fascists are at least honest about themselves in this regard, but most are not so honest, and the analysis here will discuss these — […]
Łukasz Dominiak, “Must Right-Libertarians Embrace Easements by Necessity?“, 34 Diametros 16 (2019), 60: 34–51. Abstract: The present paper investigates the question of whether right-libertarians must accept easements by necessity. Since easements by necessity limit the property rights of the owner of the servient tenement, they apparently conflict with the libertarian homestead principle, according to which the person who […]
Łukasz Dominiak, “Libertarianism and Original Appropriation,” Historia i Polityka, No. 22 (29)/2017, pp. 43–56. Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of the structure of libertarian theory of justice. It tries to present a map of the main concepts and principles of this theory and to investigate its possible justifications. It explains such fundamental […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 395. [Temporary revised version of transcript (pdf) prepared for the forthcoming Legal Foundations of a Free Society; to be updated upon publication] From the recently-concluded Sixteenth Annual (2022) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 17, 2022). The video as well as slide presentation is also streamed below (ppt). I […]
