Statism

Movie Review: Ninja Assassin

April 27, 2010 @ 5:35 pm

First of all, I found the title of the movie to be redundant from the get-go. The action scenes are mostly way over the top. The gore insanely so. Swords and other blades slice through body parts, even cutting men in half at the waist, as if they were hot knives slicing through butter. Ninja [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke must never have read Mises and Rothbard…

January 15, 2008 @ 9:20 pm

[Updated version at Prometheus Unbound and The Libertarian Standard.] …because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general laws governing scientific extrapolation, as there are not (pace Marx) in the case of politics and economics.” Well, far be it [...]

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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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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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Neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, and Hegel

December 11, 2004 @ 8:44 am

Tibor Machan has also been to a Philadelphia Society meeting. (See my reflections on the meeting I attended.) I think there were a lot more neocons there when I attended than when he did. In fact, he writes of one of the first neocons, Irving Kristol, presenting a novel idea to traditional conservatives: we need [...]

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