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Political Philosophy

A collection of 46 issues

Propaganda

It's easy to spot propaganda you disagree with. It's not so easy to spot propaganda you agree with. And if you think you're subject to propaganda, you're deluding yourself. Unregistered 149: Mark Crispin Miller — Thaddeus RussellI spoke with Mark Crispin Miller, a

Neutrality Isn't Allowed

Huberman is a non-member of that non-group, The Intellectual Dark Web. He runs with Rogan and the like. He, therefore, is outside the Establishment and, therefore, an enemy, even though I've never discerned a political position in the many hours I've listened to him. But that&

People Should be “Seething Mad” Over COVID – And Much More

George Leef at the American Institute for Economic Research

How to Define "Wokeness"

Edward Feser (at Edward Feser blog)

Shatter Zones and Jellyfish Tribes

A fellow-Generation X'er channels my thoughts almost precisely. The first third of this must-read essay recounts the problem. The last two-thirds offers a possible response ("shatter zones" and "jellyfish tribes") to the black hole State that sucks in everything near it. Kingsnorth's

The Primitive Marauder is the Modern State, Evolved

Check out last week's episode of Econtalk: Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State - EconlibSince at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering to farming allowed the creation of the State. Farming, so went the theory, led to agricultural surplus,

We Need More COVID Outrage

The COVID debacle doesn't rankle enough: not enough people seem ashamed or apologetic; not enough people seem to appreciate the enormity of what our politicians did. I, no exaggeration, find it greatly disturbing for an obvious reason: they'll do it again and too many of us

Theorists vs. Practitioners

Jeffrey Tucker at The Brownstone Institute

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Directionalists vs. Destinationists

Michael Munger at American Institute for Economic Research

William Cobbett: Radical

Plough publishes pretty pieces. This piece about the 19th-century radical William Cobbett is the latest. It discusses the centralization of agriculture that took place in England in the early 1800s and Cobbett's resistance (which made him one of GKC's heroes; he wrote a biography about him)