Democracy

A Native American Group Wants to Secede from the Union

December 20, 2007 @ 10:22 am

I’m not optimistic about their chances of success – the United States government is a jealous god – but one can hope. “Lakota group pushes for new nation“ “Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US“ And here’s some commentary on the plight of Native Americans: “Native Americans: Victims of Bureaucracy.”

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Brief Observation on War and the State

November 13, 2007 @ 10:56 am

I was just watching Crimson Tide on tv and there was a mention of the famous dictum by the Prussian general, military historian, and theorist Carl von Clausewitz: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” There is a profound truth in that dictum. It identifies shared characteristics of statist politics and war: anti-social [...]

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Naomi Wolf: The End of America

October 25, 2007 @ 7:15 pm

In related news: “Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000” (USA Today) Are you on the list?

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Family Guy – "Democracy" in Iraq

June 6, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
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New Working Papers on Rome and Praxeology

January 8, 2006 @ 7:42 pm

Those who are interested can check out the rough drafts of my seminar papers of last semester. One is a critique of Roman virtue and liberty and how these are at the root of Rome’s rise and fall. The other is on praxeology and the question of Aristotelian apriorism. For the latter, I still have [...]

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Democracy, Spontaneous Order, and the Democratic Peace Thesis

December 7, 2005 @ 3:12 pm

Gus diZerega over at Liberty & Power has made a couple of posts arguing not only in favor on the democratic peace thesis (about which I have posted before; see here) but also, and far more incredibly, that democracies are spontaneous orders. See his posts here and here. I commented on the latter, offering a [...]

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On Roman Liberty

December 5, 2005 @ 10:47 pm

Here’s the last of my reaction papers on Roman political philosophy: De Libertate Romanorum. Links to the other three can be found here. My full-length analysis will be posted in a couple of weeks.

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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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