College Essays Series

April 9, 2011 @ 9:48 am

I wrote a ton of essays in college, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student. My degrees are in political science, philosophy, and history, after all. They range in length from one single-spaced page to five double-spaced pages and beyond. I’m going to start putting some of these online as part of a [...]

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New Website, Blog, and Feed URLs

April 6, 2011 @ 9:49 pm

So I’ve gone and moved my website to a new domain name, from veritasnoctis.net to gaplauche.com. The new blog url is now, of course, gaplauche.com/blog/. No need for any ‘www’ prefix. I figure the new domain is more professional and SEO-friendly. I could have kept the same Feedburner url, but decided instead to make it [...]

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The Randian Argument Against God

January 25, 2011 @ 12:39 am

I found this brief restatement of what I take to be Ayn Rand’s epistemological argument against God in my files. I had jotted it down years ago  in college. Existents have identity.                                               [...]

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Human, All Too Human: A Poem

December 29, 2010 @ 12:26 am

I wrote this in a strong, rebellious Nietzsche phase in Nov. 1999: Human, All Too Human What beast is Man! Cruel and mean-spirited Conformity is the master plan Individuality has faded To be different is to be outcast Mindlessly follow the herd mentality The disease spreads fast Don’t deviate from the herd morality!

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Introducing Prometheus Unbound

November 25, 2010 @ 6:25 pm

Last week I launched a new website called Prometheus Unbound.  I aim for it to be a sort of online “magazine,” a libertarian review of fiction and literature. The site will feature reviews, news commentary, articles and editorials, and eventually (I hope) interviews, from a libertarian perspective. I’m entertaining the possibility of publishing original fiction [...]

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Wealthy Progressive Hypocrites Say Yes on Initiative 1098

October 29, 2010 @ 12:35 am

Watch this political ad (below) promoting Washington State’s Initiative 1098, which seeks to dedicate $2 billion per year to fund education and healthcare for children. It’s always for the children! It’s not about soaking the rich! even though this other Yeson1098 video makes a point of demonizing the greedy rich. The slogan is “the wealthy [...]

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Distraction and Waste: The Great Electioneering Spending Stimulus

October 23, 2010 @ 1:10 am

I’m hearing reports that nearly $1 billion has already been spent on US House elections alone. Sheila Krumholz of the Center for Responsive Politics predicts “$3.7 billion will be spent on this midterm election.” That’s 30% more than last time. It’s no surprise that the more legal plunder government is able to redistribute, the more people [...]

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Aphoristic Observation: Retributive Punishment Is to Restorative Justice as Egalitarianism Is to Equality

October 22, 2010 @ 12:59 am

Instead of raising the victim back up — to balance the scales of Lady Justice, so to speak — it seeks to drag the criminal down to the victim’s diminished level. ~*~ Cross-posted at The Libertarian Standard.

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