Ken White explains the legal logic of the Ferguson shooting
Read the whole damned good post at Popehat. In other news, I read a post from somewhere calling out libertarians for not voicing an opinion about the Ferguson shooting. I think the post also managed to...
View ArticleMy brief thoughts on Ferguson
When I first heard the ruling, a few hours after it had been announced, I checked the webpages of the international press. Only two outlets – Germany’s Der Spiegel and Al-Jazeera‘s Arabic language...
View ArticleFerguson: the Problem is Collectivism
We Austrians emphasize the fact that only individuals act. This may sound like a dry academic pronouncement, but sometimes events bring its meaning dramatically to the fore. The Ferguson story is one...
View ArticleWhen is violence against the state justified?
I am naturally more conservative by disposition. I don’t mean this in the sense of Republicanism, i.e. that I am a foreign interventionist, a drug abolitionist, a rich elitist, etc. Nor do I mean that...
View ArticleStaten Island and Cleveland: Different from Ferguson
Having argued in a recent piece that the problem with Ferguson was collectivism, as manifest in the notion of collective guilt, I feel obliged to speak out on recent incidents in Cleveland and Staten...
View ArticleThe death of reason
“In so far as their only recourse to that world is through what they see and do, we may want to say that after a revolution scientists are responding to a different world.” Thomas Kuhn, The Structure...
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