Tag: Spanish
The following article is translated into Spanish from the English original, written by Kevin Carson. Hoy es el 99 aniversario de la Tregua de Navidad de 1914, una tregua soldados espontánea que estalló en la víspera de Navidad a lo largo del frente occidental en Francia, con una duración en lugares hasta el día después de…
En su etapa tardía, el gran HL Mencken definió el puritanismo como «el temor obsesionante de que alguien en alguna parte pueda estar pasando un buen rato». No he visitado la ciudad de Nueva York desde hace más de una década, pero si yo aterrizara mañana en La Guardia, casi esperararía ser recibido por funcionarios…
Today is the 99th anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914, a spontaneous soldiers’ truce that broke out on Christmas Eve all along the Western Front in France, lasting in places until the day after Christmas. French, British and German soldiers, intrigued by the sound of Christmas carols from the enemy trenches, first tentatively refrained…
En el episodio del 10 de noviembre del Stossel Show, el comentarista libertario John Stossel conversó con el escritor anarcocapitalista David Friedman sobre la posibilidad de “privatizarlo todo” (o sea, todas las funciones gubernamentales). Cuando llegó el momento de abordar el tema de las funciones militares, la discusión se tornó sumamente reveladora sobre lo que…
Pope Francis wrote in his recent apostolic exhortation, “Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality.” He’s right — but not in the way he intends. Before…
The late, great HL Mencken defined puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having a good time.” I haven’t visited Michael Bloomberg’s New York City in more than a decade, but if I landed at LaGuardia tomorrow, I’d half expect to be greeted by officials right out of Tompkins Harrison Matteson’s painting “Trial…
Alan Greenspan, el señor que como presidente de la Reserva Federal infló el dólar un 77,5%, nos dice que “[Bitcoin] es una burbuja”. Greenspan afirma que “se requiere un verdadero esfuerzo imaginativo para inferir en donde reside el valor intrínseco de Bitcoin. No he sido capaz de hacerlo”. Sin embargo, Greenspan de alguna manera se…
“[Bitcoin]’s a bubble,” asserts Alan Greenspan — who, as chair of the US Federal Reserve, oversaw a 77.5% inflation of the US dollar. Greenspan asserts that “you have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it.” Somehow, however, he can stretch his…
On the November 10 episode of the Stossel Show, libertarian commentator John Stossel had an exchange with anarcho-capitalist writer David Friedman on the possibility of “privatizing everything” (i.e. all government functions). When they got to military functions, their discussion shed considerable light on what “privatization” means to a lot of the libertarian Right. “Much of…
La última vez que estuve en mi Caracas natal, hace unos años, me impresionó lo común que se había convertido la cirugía cosmética entre las mujeres. Desde entonces he estado pensando sobre lo que podría haber originado esa tendencia, y cuando leí el artículo que William Neuman escribió al respecto para el New York Times,…
In the airport-turned-town of Seatac, Washington, a ballot proposal to institute a $15/hour minimum wage clings to a narrow lead and faces a certain recount, while in Seattle a state socialist candidate has won election to the city council on a platform including a $15/hour minimum wage for the entire city. Across the United States,…
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Today I am a somewhat overweight, bearded suburban dad entering a comfortable middle age, but it was not always thus. Seven short years ago I was a lean, clean-shaven, heavily armored combat medic in Iraq, and today, November 11th, everyone is apparently required by law to remind me of the things I did in my…
La Familia: ¿Amiga o Enemiga? La familia es uno de los temas que divide a liberales de conservadores. En general, los conservadores tienden a ver a las asociaciones privadas – la familia, la iglesia, la corporación – como baluartes de libertad contra el estado. Pocos conservadores cuestionan la necesidad de un aparato estatal poderoso, pero…
Cory Doctorow, invitado de honor en la conferencia de ciencia-ficción FenCon en Dallas, menciona (“Durante el cierre del gobierno algunos científicos no pueden hablar sobre ciencia”, Boing Boing, 4 de Octubre) que algunos de sus colegas oradores no van a poder hablar si el cierre del gobierno continúa. Debido a que son científicos espaciales del…
El libertario Harry Browne una vez escribió que el gobierno «sabe cómo romperte las piernas, darte unas muletas y decir “¿Ves? si no fuera por el gobierno, no podrías caminar”». Pero con déficits y recesiones al acecho, los gobiernos han estado volviéndose más tacaños en cuanto a la entrega de muletas. La Cámara de Representantes…
Debates over conscription typically take the form of a for-or-against binary with flavors varying according to the inclinations of the participants. Fascists champion conscription as a means of purification while others see it as a means of precluding or at least mitigating the possibility of war. The former perspective deserves no further exploration, but the…
I’m hearing a lot of negativity — constructive negativity, but negativity nonetheless — from my comrades on the libertarian left, concerning the US federal government’s “shutdown.” As the Center for a Stateless Society’s Kevin Carson notes with reference to “furloughed” government employees, “[S]ome of what government workers do — for example cops who enforce drug…
Cory Doctorow, guest of honor at the upcoming FenCon science fiction convention in Dallas, notes (“During the shutdown, some scientists can’t talk about science,” Boing Boing, October 4) that some of his fellow speakers will be unable to speak if the government shutdown continues. Because they’re government space scientists, they fall under the purview of the…
Libertarian Harry Browne famously wrote that government “knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, ‘See, if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’” But with deficits and recessions looming, governments have been getting stingier when it comes to handing out crutches. The U.S. House of Representatives recently…