An open question to me is whether the anti-liberals of both left and right are a noisy minority only or a numerous and well-entrenched many. We don’t have good demographics yet. From the reasonable left, Helen Pluckrose here offers her assessment and a strategy.
Pluckrose: How bad is this illiberal moment, actually? Read More »
The quotation posted yesterday: “Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the
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Remember who said this? “Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the
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I’m in Texas for the Young Americans for Liberty conference, along with several high-profile speakers such as Ron Paul, Dave Rubin, and Cliff Maloney, in the middle of what is already a high-energy event. My afternoon talk on how younger socialists frame their thinking — and so how best to engage with them — is
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Jason Brennan, a younger philosopher at Georgetown, has taken occasional swipes at me on Facebook and other forums. The last time he did so, I responded publicly, which led to some back and forth argument. Not happy with the direction of the discussion, Brennan then deleted the entire thread. So this time I’m posting his
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I’m happy to be joining some of today’s brightest minds at thinkspot, a new free-speech-absolutist alternative to Patreon, YouTube, and other sites that have struggled with de-platforming and shadow-banning. The site initially features twelve thinkers — including Jordan Peterson, Heather MacDonald, Gregg Hurwitz, and James Altucher — and I’m honored to be included in that
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The economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk arguing, in the 1890s, against the beloved-by-Marxists labor theory of value: “Value and effort, as I have stated at length in another place, are not ideas so intimately connected that one is forced immediately to adopt the view that effort is the basis of value. ‘That I have toiled over
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