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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”
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…
Self-Employment, Workplace Democracy, and Moral Theory
Laurance Labadie’s “Anarchism and the Money Problem”
Making Sense of the PKK’s Self-Dissolution
“What’s a ‘Libertarian Authoritarian’?”
. . . Let Me Help You Out. In a review of Offended Freedom: The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism, Reason’s Brian Doherty summarizes the book’s topic as “people formerly of the left, who ‘were once committed to an emancipatory transformation of the existing order,’ who have pivoted to hostility toward openness to foreigners and the…
Book Review: Filthy Lucre
Reconciling the Insights of Marx and George
Book Review: Assets in Common
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)