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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 […] →Read more
“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 […] →Read more
Introducing the Long Library, a podcast of the Center for a Stateless Society where I interview Roderick Long on one of his writings. Any requests? Send me a note here. In our first episode, I talk to Roderick about his 2004 monograph “Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections.” This is one of the first things […] →Read more
Aaron Ross Powell invites me on to (Re)Imagining Liberty to interview him on Buddhism, Liberalism, and the Politics on Impermanence (December 16, 2023). →Read more
On this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, I interview Jason Lee Byas on public choice theory, reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and war. Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and […] →Read more
In this episode of the Anti-Power Hour, Lucy and I talk about peace in our time, scary movies, and more. →Read more
Alex Aragona of the Institute for Liberal Studies invites me on The Curious Task to discuss prison abolition. How do we abolish prisons? →Read more
In this episode of Anti-Power Hour, Lucy and I talk about Barbieheimer, hypocrisy, the far right, and more! →Read more
See full post on Econlib. It was Don Lavoie, not Friedrich Hayek, who coined the term “knowledge problem” in his seminal 1985 National Economic Planning: What Is Left? (itself a more accessible and policy-focused distillation of Lavoie’s thesis, under Israel Kirzner, entitled Rivalry and Central Planning: The Socialist Calculation Debate Reconsidered). Lavoie reformulated and clarified […] →Read more
Host Eric Fleischmann and I discuss my 2015 article, What Is Anarchism? Does it still hold up? →Read more
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