I follow two Twitter accounts that just retweet all the tweets of every Congressperson (one for the Senate and the other for the House). ā¦
It is frequently claimed that Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world because it is loosely based on the Vedas. It is also claimed that SiddhÄrtha Gautama founded Buddhism in response to Hinduism (or, possibly even as a reformation of Brahmanical/Vedic Hinduism). It is assumed that the Buddha wasā¦
This is an anthology of all of my posts in the Progressive Libertarianism series.
Summary of Part 1 of Progressive Libertarianism: I discuss how free-market libertarianism was originally a radical leftwing or center-left philosophy that questioned the legitimacy of capitalist property, noting how rightwing libertarianism didnāt exist prior to caā¦
Part 3: Libertarianism, Distributism, & Welfare
The Overlapping Consensus
Socialists and libertarians both integrated key Burkean conservative insights into their philosophies around the turn of the 19th Century. The revolutionary idea of tearing the system down to build something completely new from scratch fell into disfavor. Libertarians started to shy away from anarchism and socialists started to shy awayā¦
Part 2: Hayekian Libertarianism vs. Burkean Conservatism
In this essay, we will look at the progressive libertarianism of F. A. Hayek and examine the ways in which it is at odds with conservatism as well as the ways in which it overlaps with Burkean conservatism. Libertarians are at odds with conservatives on a number of issues. Traditionalā¦
Part 1: The Historical Libertarian Tradition Was Not Right-Wing
The modern ālibertarianā movement has been highjacked by right-wing extremists. Various right-wing factions have taken over the movement and reframed it as a far-right propertarian ideology. Members of these factions often identify as Misesians, Rothbardians, Hoppeans, or ā more broadly ā as āanarcho-capitalists.ā This new right-libertarian ideology defines liberty inā¦
Ignorance As An Impediment to Morality
Ignorance and immorality are nearly coterminous. The biggest problem with our society is that everyone ā you, me, Einstein, literally EVERYONEā is stupid as fuck and resistant to being educated. Nevertheless, you have a moral obligation to educate yourself. My reference to ignorance/immorality here is not meant as an insultā¦
Neoliberal, Georgist, & Liberal-Socialist Approaches
I define realist utopias as models for the Great Society that are far greater than any system ever implemented before yet still realistically within our grasp. ā¦
Do We Have A Common Crisis With A Single Solution?
Today I was listening to the Forgotten America podcast and the story they were telling, as usual, was kind of depressing. However, it did get me thinking about something significant. The podcast speaks about issues facing people in rural America, which is where my family is from and where mostā¦
Towards a Basic Structure that is Just
Classical neoliberalism resembles market socialism in many ways. It, of course, is not socialist but the basic structure that it recommends is effectively analogous to market socialism in many ways. I find it interesting that two very different political philosophies could end up recommending such functionally isomorphic basic structures. ā¦
