A Time to Repeal and Replace
No stable common ground has been found with the Left as they march through our institutions creating new, ever more radical and unhealthy ones.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., tears her copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address after he delivered it to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Contending with Demons
Antifa protest march on August 4, 2018 in Portland, Oregon (Eric Crudup/Shutterstock.com).One Cheer for Prohibition
In response to: “Two Kaisers in the Same Grave”: Prohibition at 100
Interior of a crowded bar moments before midnight, June 30, 1919, when wartime prohibition went into effect, New York City. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-123253 (b&w film copy neg.)More Responses
Prohibition may have been disastrous for America, but it reflected a deep respect for American constitutionalism we should envy today.
The very people the nativists sought to Americanize or, failing that, oppress and restrict, were oftentimes the very ones who benefited from Prohibition.
The question in 1919, and before and since, was whether such sweeping attempts at social control promoted responsible citizenship or undermined them.
Fukuyama’s Hollow Nation-State
Francis Fukuyama (Image: Johns Hopkins University)When Public Morality Lost Its Foothold: The Unheeded Wisdom of Harry Clor
Let’s Talk about Sex
The Problem with the “Simple Principle” of Liberty
In response to: Can Libertarianism Be a Governing Philosophy?
Mock-up of a new, libertarian frontier: "sea-steading"More Responses
If libertarians are not prepared to accept the consequences of absolute non-aggression, they should seek a more plausible public philosophy.
Munger’s framework leaves us with hope grounded in realism.
My suggestion was that “directional” libertarians and classical liberals ally rather than question one another’s authenticity.
Boise State University’s Blueprint for Social Justice
A Modest Proposal to Create a New Humanity
Henry T. Greely’s The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction defends the idea that “Easy PGD” (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis) will soon replace sexual reproduction as the primary way human beings enter the world. “Easy PGD” is a logical scientific development beyond in vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF involves fertilizing an egg harvested from a woman with a sperm and then placing the embryo into a uterus. “Difficult” PGD combines IVF with a genetic screen of the prospective embryos for attributes that parents would find desirable in their children and implanting the chosen embryo into the uterus. The “Easy” version…
Innovation and the Families of the Future
Steven Horwitz’s Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions uses the Austrian economist’s mode of analysis: marriage and the family are seen as the products of undirected environmental changes, products that arose to meet functions important to human survival and flourishing. By “modern family,” Horwitz means marriages that are the result of choice and affection, where each in the couple is equal and independent, where children are valued sentimentally, and where the family enjoys privacy from community and politics. For him, the “modern family” is an adaptation to changes in our environment brought about through efficient free-market…
