Virtual reading groups are a way to learn better together. Participants meet for 90 minutes a week to discuss freely supplied readings with a scholar’s help. Mutual respect, curiosity, and consistent participation are expected. Meetings are recorded so others can learn from our conversations. Applicants will be emailed further instructions on how to participate. The ancient Greeks were…

Today I talk with Roderick about his 2013 blog post “Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression,” one of many early 2010s blog posts across the libertarian ecosystem debating the pros and cons of the non-aggression principle, or NAP. As usual, Roderick thinks both sides make some good points, but ultimately lands on the side of the NAP. Though…

“Corporations versus the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now” was the lead essay of Cato Unbound’s 2008 discussion “When Corporations Hate Markets” and later included in C4SS’s “Markets Not Capitalism.” The essay is one-half political economy, sketching out the basic ideas behind freed-market anti-capitalism, and one-half political psychology, exploring the various pitfalls leading virtually everyone, from…

We’re excited to release this first episode of a new C4SS podcast with both audio and video versions, hosted by Cory Massimino!! The Long Library  Roderick Long is a C4SS Senior Fellow, philosopher, writer, anarchist theorist, and one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. The Long Library is a monthly series dedicated to…

The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in New York City, 15-18 January 2024, at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 7th Ave. & 53rd St., New York NY 10019 (room TBA). Most of the presenters are C4SS folks….

Roderick Tracy Long is in need of financial help. Our readers are likely to be familiar with his contributions to our site. And whether in appreciation of those writings and/or human empathy in general may want to help Roderick Long out. He is accepting gifts via GoFundMe and asks people to email or message him…

The grand finale volume to The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies went live today on the site of the Scholarly Publishing Collective. Check it out here. Unlike the print edition [link added], the e-platform version is the only one with full-color images! The 2023 grand finale is a double issue and constitutes the last volume in the journal’s 2+ decade history…

Di Dawie Coetzee. Originale: “Car Culture”: Just Stop, del 12 agosto 2022. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Nel corso della Conferenza in Memoria di Rothbard, Rothbard’s “Left and Right”: Forty Years Later, del 2006, Roderick Long illustrò brillantemente così l’anticoncetto del termine pacchetto randiano: “Poniamo che io inventi una parola, xaxlebax, a cui attribuisco il significato…

In the course of his 2006 Rothbard Memorial Lecture, Rothbard’s “Left and Right”: Forty Years Later, Roderick Long creates a beautiful device to illustrate package-deal anti-concepts in the Randian sense: “Suppose I were to invent a new word, zaxlebax, and define it as ‘a metallic sphere, like the Washington Monument.’ That’s the definition — ‘a…

Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale, Eric Fleischmann tarafından kaleme alınmış ’ye çevrilmiştir. 17 Mayıs 2022 tarihinde “The Age-Old Question: Is Anarcho-Capitalism Anarchism?” başlığı altında yayınlanmıştır. Anarko-kapitalizm de bir anarşizm türü müdür? Ben de dahil olmak üzere her türden anarşistin yankı yapacak cevabı tabii ki de hayır olacaktır. Tartışma sürekli gündemede ama anarşizm olmadığını iddia ediyorsak şu…

Di Eric Fleischmann. Originale pubblicato il 17 maggio 2022 con il titolo The Age-Old Question: Is Anarcho-Capitalism Anarchism? Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. L’anarco-capitalismo è anarchismo? Anarchici di ogni sfumatura, compreso io, urlano: NO! Il dibattito infuria. Due le questioni: perché no? e: cos’è allora l’anarchismo? Le mie risposte: perché non soddisfa i requisiti dell’anarchismo, e…

De Eric Fleischmann. Artículo original publicado el 17 de mayo de 2022 con título The Age-Old Question: Is Anarcho-Capitalism Anarchism? Traducción al español de Vince Cerberus. ¿Es el anarcocapitalismo una forma de anarquismo? El grito resonante de los anarquistas de todas las tendencias, incluido yo mismo, es ¡NO! El debate continúa, pero esta afirmación plantea…

Is anarcho-capitalism a form of anarchism? The resounding cry from anarchists of all stripes—including myself—is NO! The debate rages on, but two questions are raised by this claim: why isn’t it anarchism and if it isn’t anarchism then what is it? I believe the answers are: because it fails to meet the deeper commitments of…

In this episode of MER, Alex McHugh interview Gus diZerega on his work around democracy as a spontaneous order. Gus is a retired professor with a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is now an independent scholar and has been involved in an ongoing back and forth on libertarianism with…

If you haven’t subscribed to Roderick Long’s Agoric Cafe YouTube channel yet, you’re really missing out! On the Agoric Cafe channel, you can find videos and interviews “devoted to philosophy, politics, history, literature, and whatever else [Roderick feels] like sounding off on.” The interview episodes have been interesting and explorative and the most recent two…

Let’s begin this review honestly: despite having referenced her in multiple articles, I—like almost all leftists regardless of ideology—do not like Ayn Rand and am most certainly not an Objectivist. I approach her much like Karl Hess did: seeing her value in comparison to Emma Goldman but rejecting her ostensive, unflattering solipsism. Yet, I consider Chris…

Click below to watch C4SS senior fellow Roderick Long’s lecture on “How (and Why) to Be a Free-Market Radical Leftist.” This lecutre was originally presented as part of the Liberty Webinars, a format of online lectures with a subsequent discussion, organized by Students for Liberty CZ together with Slovak Students For Liberty.  How do…

The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association via Zoom (7-9 and 14-16 January). Only those who cough up the hefty registration fee will be able to access the session, so no chance of free-riding this time around (the APA’s decision, definitely not ours; the…

Philosopher, writer, C4SS Senior Fellow, and longtime anarchist theorist Roderick T. Long is facing steep medical costs and needs our help paying his bills. I’ve known Roderick Long for the better part of a decade and few people have had a bigger impact on my life. Roderick is my biggest intellectual inspiration. Not just because…

In episode no. 14 of Agoric Cafe and in Part 2 of this 2-part interview, Roderick Long chats with Sheldon Richman about the Israeli occupation of Palestine; u.s. intervention in the Middle East; the meaning of Jewish identity; the relation between libertarian individualism and social cooperation; the communistic theories of Frédéric Bastiat; the theologico-political merits…