Hunting dogs
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt, Policy and Politics | 30 Comments »"When the law is against you," goes the adage, "argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both the facts and law are against you…." Here we may turn for instruction to Jerry Taylor, ringleader of ...
For taunt-seekers
Monday, March 5th, 2012 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt, Policy and Politics | 7 Comments »God, now I have to go back and read a bunch of crap I wrote ten years ago to see if I still agree with it. I don't know much about this Cato business. I do of course know Koch. I ...
Libertarianism V: Rebuttals and Rejoinders
Friday, November 22nd, 2002 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt | 7 Comments »Well, I've seen my essays on libertarianism described as "intelligent" and "potshots." I'll settle for something in between. A number of smart people have responded to my thoughts, both in the Comments sections attached to each essay, and on their ...
Libertarianism IV: Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud
Tuesday, November 19th, 2002 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt | 10 Comments »Faith and community are slogans for most politicians, but they are real to most people. They have little place in libertarianism. That's not completely true -- many libertarians have a faith in spontaneous order that borders on mystical; it is ...
Libertarianism III: It’s All About Me and My Needs
Friday, November 15th, 2002 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt | 17 Comments »In the last essay I argued that libertarians have the wrong approach to advancing their cause. I could have quoted libertarian godfather Murray Rothbard: "While Marxists devote about 90 percent of their energies to thinking about strategy and only 10 ...
Libertarianism II: Internal Contradictions
Wednesday, November 13th, 2002 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt | 4 Comments »In the last essay I argued that libertarianism has not been well-argued because it exists more as creed than philosophy of governance. In this essay I will argue further that libertarianism in theory and practice evinces a self-contradictory view of ...
Libertarianism: Bringing Back the Lower Case
Monday, November 11th, 2002 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt | 27 Comments »Today I begin a series of posts on the topic of libertarianism, or, more specifically, why I think it is currently a flawed and failed religion posing as a philosophy of governance. I originally intended to entitle this series "The ...
Crime, Math, and Libertarians
Tuesday, June 4th, 2002 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt | 7 Comments »I started out to make a simple point, and then it got bigger, and soon butted up against an issue that I plan to lay out here in clearer form at a later date. But in deference to the patriarchal, ...
Morality Matters
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2002 Posted in Debating Libertarians Gently So Gene Healy Doesn't Get His Feelings Hurt, From Blogger | Comments OffIt's always enjoyable to hear Libertarians give electoral advice. But something that undermines sanctimonious Libertarian claims about sanctimonious Republicans scaring off potential voters with excessive moralizing is the wealth of survey data indicating that the majority of Americans are not, ...
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