Tag: Reason
There’s a great deal of commonality in critiques of degrowth by left-wing “ecomodernists” and accelerationists like Leigh Philips (see my critique here), and right-wing libertarians like Steven Greenhut. Both are characterized by a high degree of conceptual laziness; this laziness is manifested particularly in a failure to clearly define what degrowth even is, instead playing…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale: Fake Libertarians, Fake Leftists, and Real Fascists, del 23 febbraio 2025. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Il giorno dopo l’infame “sieg heil”, il saluto nazista fatto da Elon Musk al discorso inaugurale, Thomas Lecaque, docente di storia che studia la violenza religiosa, giustamente osservava: “Elon Musk ha fatto il saluto nazista….
Advocates of Basic Income have trotted out a lot of arguments for its benefits, but I never expected John Stossel (“Universal Basic Income Shows Why Giving People ‘Free Money’ Doesn’t Work,” Reason, October 9) to produce such a convincing one. When I was young, If I hadn’t needed to work to support myself, I wouldn’t…
The day after Elon Musk’s infamous use of the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute in an Inauguration Day speech, Thomas Lecaque — a professor of history specializing in religious violence — pointedly observed: “Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. There isn’t a discussion, there aren’t interpretations, this isn’t a controversy, there are people lying about it…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale: Christian Britschgi’s Lack of Object Permanence, del 2 maggio 2024. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Nota del traduttore: La permanenza dell’oggetto è la capacità di capire che un oggetto esiste anche quando non lo si percepisce più. Vedi anche qui. Christian Britschgi ha pubblicato su Reason (“Do Not Under Any…
Por Kevin Carson. Título original: Christian Britschgi’s Lack of Object Permanence, de 2 de maio de 2024. Traduzido para o português por Ruan L. No periódico Reason, Christian Britschgi (em “Sob quaisquer circunstâncias, não nacionalizem a Greyhound) celebra a americana e “extensiva rede de serviços de ônibus intermunicipais privados, que visa o lucro (e que…
At Reason, Christian Britschgi (“Do Not Under Any Circumstances Nationalize Greyhound”) celebrates America’s “extensive network of private, for-profit (and profitable) intercity bus services primarily serving lower-income people” as “a great example of how the free market can provide an essential service without public subsidies.” There are a lot of questionable, or outright ahistorical, assumptions implicit…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale: The Climate Denial Machine’s Fake Statistics Just Keep On Coming, del 18 ottobre 2023. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. In un precedente articolo dicevo di Ron Bailey (e gli “esperti” climatici da lui vantati) che su Reason si baloccava coi numeri del pil nel tentativo di minimizzare i danni causati dai cambiamenti…
Di Kevin Carson. Titolo originale: Won’t Somebody Think of the Poor Taxpaying Landlords? del primo ottobre 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Su Reason, Liz Wolfe (“Did NYC Just Kneecap Airbnb?”), esce dal suo solito giustificazionismo delle piattaforme tecnologiche e invade il campo di Christian Britschgi, la voce dei latifondisti immobiliari. Confesso che l’idea di…
In a previous column, I examined the way Reason’s Ron Bailey (and the hack climate “scientists” he showcases) have toyed with GDP statistics in an attempt to downplay the harm from climate change. It looks like Ron and his buddies have some competition in the “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” category — it’s coming from…
At Reason (“Did NYC Just Kneecap Airbnb?”), Liz Wolfe seems to be diversifying beyond her normal focus on tech platform apologetics and crowding onto the turf of resident landlord whisperer Christian Britschgi. I confess my first reading of the title brought a smile to my face — probably not the effect Wolfe intended — as…
According to Matthew’s gospel, Jesus used a colorful metaphor to condemn the scribes and Pharisees for scrupulously obsessing over minor points of the law like tithing their herbs, while ignoring weightier matters: “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” The same metaphor could describe right-libertarians’ approach to transportation policy. A…
In this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, Elizabeth Nolan Brown discusses abortion, sex work, moral panics, conspiracies, feminism, libertarianism, and more. Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason magazine, a co-founder of Feminists for Liberty, and a journalism lecturer at the University of Cincinnati. You can follow her on Twitter at @ENBrown.
Kevin Carson. Artículo original: How NOT to Argue Against the Existence of Monopoly, de 3 de agosto 2021. Traducido al español por Antonio J. Ferrer. Liz Wolfe parece haber reemplazado, en las últimas semanas, a Elizabeth Nolan Brown como la apologista en jefe de las plataformas tecnológicas en Reason. En su artículo más reciente sobre…
Kevin Carson. Artículo original: Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud de 11 de agosto de 2021. Traducido al español por Camila Figueroa. Por lo general, los liberales de derecha no dicen directamente que un fuerte poder de negociación por parte de los trabajadores se opone directamente a los intereses capitalistas, y que la reducción del…
Kevin Carson. Artigo original: Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud, 11 de agosto 2021. Traduzido por Gabriel Serpa. Normalmente, um libertário de direita tem o cuidado de não dizer abertamente que trabalhadores com forte poder de barganha vão contra os interesses do capitalismo, ou que sua fraqueza é boa para o sistema econômico vigente. Assim…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 3 agosto 2021 con il titolo How NOT to Argue Against the Existence of Monopoly. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Pare che da qualche settimana Liz Wolfe abbia usurpato il ruolo che era di Elizabeth Nolan di difensore capo delle piattaforme tecnologiche su Reason. Nel suo ultimo articolo sul tema,…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato l’undici agosto 2021 con il titolo Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Solitamente, un libertario di destra si guarda bene dal dire apertamente che i lavoratori con un forte potere contrattuale vanno contro gli interessi del capitalismo, o che, viceversa, la loro debolezza è un bene…
Usually right-libertarians don’t come right out and say that robust bargaining power on the part of labor is directly opposed to capitalist interests, and that reduced bargaining power of labor as such is good for capitalism. And they sure don’t admit that they consider bigotry a good thing when it’s a useful weapon against labor….
Liz Wolfe, in recent weeks, seems to have displaced Elizabeth Nolan Brown as the chief tech platform apologist at Reason. In her most recent article on this theme, “Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Right: Companies That Dominate Today May Be Gone Tomorrow” (July 26), the general lines of her argument are simple: “Today’s Big Tech…
