The reigning king of intellectual “property” litigiousness looks to be on the receiving end for a little of what it’s been dishing out.
The first thing to note is that Romney is typical of the right wing of the ruling elite, which often portrays lower income beneficiaries of the welfare state as a threat to the established order.
Alan Furth on several of the most important blindspots of the vulgar-libertarian view of Argentina and its recent history.
Long: Is it true that objective law can be provided only by a governmental monopoly?
Ross Kenyon makes the case that libertarians, while very interested in economic theory, need to pay closer attention to political economy, history, and institutional analysis to make sure that they are applying theory where it appropriate to do so.
How Violence Against Women Enforces the Unwritten Law of Patriarchy
William Gillis fires back at a critique of the recently-published Markets Not Capitalism.
On December 26, 2011, C4SS Board and Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier appeared on Current TV’s The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur. The show featured two leftists — Chartier and AlterNet editor Adele Stan — discussing the merits of Ron Paul’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. As a passionate foe of militarism, aggression, and empire,…
Kevin Carson to the 53%: Stop licking the boot that kicks you.
Ross Kenyon deconstructs the misleading abstraction of “the market” and makes an existentialist case for the coupling of the freedom to choose poorly with the wisdom to choose wisely.
David S. D’Amato on living under the jackboot of the state’s monopoly on protective services.
Kevin Carson on Soylent Gree … er, corporations.
Kevin Carson reads Nancy Grace so you don’t have to.
Ricardo Rodriguez and Brennan Lester go after another piece of Scripture erroneously used by Christians to justify the parasitic State. In this case, the controversial (and popularly demanded) Romans 13.
The core libertarian test of any human behavior is whether it forces itself upon any unwilling party. So, it would be a core libertarian position that doing anything by yourself in private on your own property — or privately between or among universally consenting sentient beings — should not be invaded to prevent it by…
Alex R. Knight III: “Porcfest 2010 at Lancaster, New Hampshire – an annual event put on by the Free State Project – and which I recently had both the pleasure and honor to attend, was quite an enlightening picture of where the Freedom Movement is at, how it has grown, and where it’s going.”
Kevin Carson continues his examination of the role of state intervention in the market in encouraging bad ecological behavior.
Anna Morgenstern offers an anarchist critique of the statist critique of libertarianism.
Ross Kenyon discusses property theory, land monopoly and the state.
Kevin Carson takes exception to the exceptions.
