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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…
Dear American Right,
The “Violent Rhetoric” Is Coming From Inside Your House Kirk As the New Horst Wessel / Ernst vom Rath / Reichstag Fire Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk Wednesday, all over the right-wing political world and commentariat we’ve seen mouth-frothing rage, as authoritarian crybullies blame the killing on the “violent rhetoric of the left” and…
Where Are We At Now?
When Owning the Libs Trumps Fighting Fascism 
Misunderstanding “Infinite Growth”
Why Myanmar’s Military Dictatorships are Fascist Regimes
The term “fascism,” as George Orwell once cautioned, has often been diluted, losing its precise meaning and becoming a generic slur. This has led to its misapplication, where its core ideology is overlooked in favour of its more superficial traits, such as authoritarianism and militarism. While these are certainly present in fascist regimes, they are…
Liberal-Anarchism
Self-Employment, Workplace Democracy, and Moral Theory
Laurance Labadie’s “Anarchism and the Money Problem”
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)