Where Are We At Now?
My Assessment When I wrote my original piece after the election and before Trump took office, I somewhat underestimated how rapid and extensive his power grabs would be. I very badly underestimated how incompetent he’d be at it. What Trump has in mind is clearly a consolidation of power on the model of Hungary’s Victor…
Liberal-Anarchism
…or “The Theory of Libertarian Social Democracy” Liberalism, properly understood, is not merely a justification for free markets or negative liberty. It is, at root, a philosophy of emancipation. Likewise, anarchism is not chaos, but the pursuit of a voluntary and non-dominating social order. When joined together and viewed through a dialectical libertarian lens, these…
Book Review: Filthy Lucre
Joseph Heath. Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2009). Heath states his goal at the outset: I’m not interested in selling anyone on the virtues of private enterprise. This is primarily because I share the unease that most people feel with the capitalist system. And I would like to see us…
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 ideology of ethnonationalism,…