Dialectical Libertarianism

Research Interests and APSA 2006 Abstracts

December 5, 2005 @ 10:40 pm

I recently submitted abstracts for two papers to the APSA for their August 2006 annual conference. I’ll know in a few months whether either of them has been accepted. The abstracts are reproduced below. One of the papers is a work in progress, the other is one that I plan to right before the conference. [...]

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Considerations on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome

November 21, 2005 @ 9:24 pm

Below are links to three short reaction paper-type essays that I have written so far this semester for a seminar I am taking on Roman political philosophy. They are only my preliminary thoughts on the underlying causes of Rome’s rise and fall. A fourth short paper will follow in about a week and a half, [...]

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Anarchism and Dualism at the Mutualist Blog

September 7, 2005 @ 6:36 pm

Kevin Carson has noticed our debate and gives a brief but useful summary of it. The debate about anarchism, particularly on market and non-market institutions within society, continues in the wake of his post as well as a deep discussion about time. Check it out. Addendum (10:47 pm): Speaking of anarchy, check out this discussion [...]

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Rational Evangelism vs. Business and Technology: A False Alternative?

August 31, 2005 @ 7:30 pm

Now that my power has been restored I can get back to full-fledged blogging and respond to John Kennedy’s response to my recent post on libertarian strategies. That could be delayed a bit due to the out of town wedding I am attending soon. Until then, Micha Ghertner of Catallarchy posted a quote from John’s [...]

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Strategies for Libertarian Anarchy

August 26, 2005 @ 12:49 pm

The debate on anarchism and dualism (see here for all the relevant links) has shifted to a debate about strategies for bringing about (and maintaining) a libertarian-anarchic society. So far the discussion is largely being conducted on Chris’s blog here and John Kennedy’s No Treason (see the comments in Chris’s blog post for the particular [...]

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Anarchy and Dualism Revisited: Some Clarification for a (One-time?) Reader

August 20, 2005 @ 9:27 am

I don’t know if the person whose post prompted this one will read it, but here goes. I feel the need to clarify my position anyway. William J. Beck III over at www.two-four.net happened to read some of my exchange with Chris Sciabarra on anarchy and dualism. (See my posts here, here, and here.) For [...]

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Constitutional Anarchy (Cont.)

July 17, 2005 @ 3:24 pm

To supplement my previous posts (1 and 2) on the subject of anarchy, it occurred to me that Constitutional Anarchy is probably a better term for what I have thus far called Republican Anarchy. It is not classical republicanism but constitutionalism under which the principle of the separation of powers properly falls. The term Constitutional [...]

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Anarchism, Statism, and Dualism (Cont.)

July 14, 2005 @ 12:19 pm

My original post was brief and hasty (a bad habit of mine I’m trying to break, and it obviously failed to convince the sympathetic but skeptical Chris. Although I cannot, at this point in time, write a full length article or book on the subject, I think it would be worthwhile to elaborate on my [...]

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