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The Markets and Society Conference this weekend (October 17-20) in Falls Church, Virginia will feature many interesting panels on topics from war to borders to trade to public choice to feminism to AI to LGBTQ+ rights and much more. There will also be longtime C4SS Fellows, contributors, and coordinators on the schedule. On Saturday, from…
Time for an Old Idea to Come Around Again?
Radical Technology and Neighborhood Power At Reason (“The Anarchist and the Republican,” April 13), Jesse Walker writes of a period in the 1970s when an Old Rightist speechwriter for Barry Goldwater turned New Leftist (Karl Hess), and a Nixon Republican and future Reagan speechwriter  (John McClaughry), could reach unlikely consensus around values like worker self-management…
Dear American Right,
Where Are We At Now?
When Owning the Libs Trumps Fighting Fascism 
Yugoslavia: A Utopia Lost or False Nostalgia?
The twentieth century was marked by rapid technological advancements and population growth, never seen before in the history of humans. It was also a century where creativity reached new heights, especially ideologically speaking. One of these political experiments was the creation of Yugoslavia. It is a country that no longer exists; however, nostalgia for it…
Alienation, Deprivation, and Play
Why Myanmar’s Military Dictatorships are Fascist Regimes
Liberal-Anarchism
Book Review: Red Moon
I had Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon on my Goodreads to-read list for a long time, mainly because I’m a fan of his other work and the title sounded evocative. But I put off reading it time and again because the Goodreads summary didn’t give much indication of how much systemic transition figured in the…
“What’s a ‘Libertarian Authoritarian’?”
Book Review: Filthy Lucre
Reconciling the Insights of Marx and George
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
. . . With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The…
The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification
Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right)
Intellectual Property: A Libertarian Critique — 2nd Edition (2009, 2023)