Recent Comments

• Red Green: That which is prohibited becomes an enticement to some people. When an authority figure says, "you must not", a young person says,"I wonder why"? And ...
• Keith Preston: I'm an "anarcho-socialist" or "libertarian socialist" in the tradition of Proudhon, but I'm resolutely opposed to what most modern people think of as ...
• P.M.Lawrence: Well, cynic that I am, I suspect that there would be a tendency for new forms of harmful structure to emerge. More precisely, new manifestations of ol...
• Kevin Carson: Unlike the present corporate/state economy, which is the result of massive subsidies to centralization, large size and hierarchy, and special protecti...
• Kevin Carson: Soviet Onion, I think an agorist would try to conduct peaceful black market exchange with voluntary buyers, using trust-based networks, encryption,...
• Chris Acheson: Bread differs from drugs in that you can always fall back on white-market bread. This serves as an effective cap on the price of black-market bread. ...
• jwh: ....and what would your superior "structures of political and economic power" look like, pray tell.....?...
• Soviet Onion: Chris, True, but but they'll still try to extort the bread bakers at some point :) It seems like I'm starting to notice more and more contradict...
• Dain: Ha. I was redundant in that last post....
• Mona: Please see update at top of post. We got Horwitz! Thanks Dain and Mark for the superb suggestion, and help finding the "right" guest....
• Dain: Dark Knight got 94% percent at Rotten Tomatoes, with over 100 reviews in....
• Mona: I thought Carson and Preston considered themselves socialists. Kevin can speak for himself, but I understand him to be a s...
• Chris Acheson: Soviet Onion: Nah. We'll be in trouble if they try to monopolize black-market bread, though....
• Soviet Onion: ". . . we’ve allowed our country to be taken over by gangs and organized crime syndicates fighting to control the black markets in illegal drugs." ...
• TGGP: We have a two-party adversarial system where the base of each naturally thinks the other is a grave threat to all that is great and good. It's been li...
• TGGP: I thought Carson and Preston considered themselves socialists. I don't know about Brink Lindsay. He supported the Iraq war and while he seems to ha...
• TGGP: Thanks jackson....
• Bob: Advice for the near future - http://richardbergin.blogspot.com/...
• Kevin Carson: There's certainly a scary history of such cross-pollination, Mona. A lot of the arguments federal law enforcement used for the expanded powers under...
• Kevin Carson: Congrats on lining up Balko, Mona. What with Greenwald, and now this, we're getting a lot of big names here. Mark and Dain, The Burszak book is...
• Jadagul: Came over from Jennifer's blog. Jennifer knows this already, but I'm a lot more optimistic about all this than most of you guys (admittedly, I can sa...
• Chris Crawford: It's true that Democrats failed to solve the problem in 1979. It's also true that Republicans have made it worse....
• P.M.Lawrence: KC, I can agree with that reasoning without its affecting the (legal) outcome. On the one hand, one can argue that Britain had a right to legislate fo...
• jackson: TGGP, sorry, your comment got flagged as spam for some reason. It is now restored....
• jackson: "We can’t afford the environmental effects of burning coal any more than we can afford the environmental effects of burning oil " Sure, that...
• jackson: That is the same Phil Gramm who is now advising John McCain. That is the kind of Democrat that Carter had to deal with....
• jackson: jwh wrote: "Let’s see……Jimmy was a Democrat…..he had a Democrat House, and a Democrat Senate……." Conservatives controlled the House at t...
• Dain: Agreed. And I suppose we can trust Horowitz to give an accurate account of Burczak's thought....
• Mona: Right Dain, but socialists are just beyond this site. Even those who have nice things to say about Hayek. Horowitz understands that Hayek was not agai...
• Dain: I'm sure Horowitz would be "down" for that. Though by having Horowitz we'd be diverting from Mark's suggestion above, as Horowitz is himself a liberta...
• Mona: Thank you, Dain! I'm almost thinking the reviewer, Stephen Horwitz (an author and academic reaching such areas himself) might but be the better chat g...
• Dain: Here is the review I was talking about, by Steve Horowitz, on a book by Theodore Burczak called Socialism After Hayek: http://www.reason.com/news/s...
• Mona: Ed, Lindsey for what topic in particular?...
• ed: interview brink lindsey?...
• Mona: Kevin: Since the 4th Cir has now ruled that Bush may retain "enemy combatants" captured on U.S. indefinitely -- including U.S. citizens -- it only awa...
• Mona: Mark and Dain: Excellent idea. Now if either or both of you would like to find out who such an expert might be -- or the author Dain is referencing wh...
• Dain: I'll second Mark. I'd like to see a true examplar of the liberaltarian fusion being attempted here into the chat room. There was a book reviewed in...
• Mark: In terms of topics, I'd love to see a chat dedicated to rescuing Hayek from the clutches of the Right. I know this was more of a hot topic last month...
• Paul Meli: "Let’s see……Jimmy was a Democrat…..he had a Democrat House, and a Democrat Senate……. If they couldn’t solve the problem then, what can possibly lea...
• jwh: Why do any of you really care about the polls? Are any of your personal fortunes at risk based on one candidate winning over theh other? I suspect n...