The term ‘Freedom’, and its near relation ‘Liberty’, have a long heritage. The babylonian words “ama-gi”, meaning “Return To The Mother”, written in cuneiform, are often cited by Libertarians as the first written use [...]
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Joseph Postell of the Heritage Foundation, whom I admire, posts an article in today’s Washington Times entitled Constitutional Decline. Keeping the tradition of picking on your friends, because it’s simply an easier way to make a point than systematic [...]
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Leftists wish to remake society. They want to return us to the “homogenous tribal redistributive society” (HTRS) on a large scale. They will fail. They have failed. They cannot make a homogenous redistributive and tribal society from a multicultural empire [...]
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Timeplots posted an infographic on women’s participation in congress, which, all things being equal, has essentially remained flat. However, I take issue with the assumption that participation alone is a measure of somehting valuable, other than than as [...]
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I’ve been asked quite a few times what I mean by “calculation.” My editor, among others, has stated that I’m not clear. So I’m going to try to put this in context.
CALCULATION
The English word derives from the [...]
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The horrid natural impact of laws was something surprising to me. We have for well over two thousand years been subject to a method of thought and a political tool that was designed for managing slaves: law. And slavery is [...]
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Capitalism 3.0
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/02/capitalism-30.html
Over on the Economist’s View there are a whole series of comments that negatively reflect on capitalism. This is my response.
All,
I am amazed reading these comments. What is it about this blog that [...]
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We have dictionaries.
We have thesauruses.
We have encyclopedias.
We have Adler’s Syntopicon.
What we need is a tome, a book, for causal relationships: a worldwide list of the metaphysical assumptions that people use to [...]
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Two charts courtesy of Carpe Diem show the largely male nature of the recession to date.
I found this particularly interesting, partly because it’s obvious, but also as part of [...]
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In response to Felix Salmon on Portfolio.Com’s Market Movers:
Economic reasoning (actually all philosophical reasoning) is the study of processes from first causes to last causes. Any cause that is not first-cause is simply making assumptions. A practical person [...]
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About
Curt Doolittle
Seattle, WA, United States
"De Philosophia Aristocratia"
I am an independent theorist of Political Economy in the Austrian Libertarian tradition. As a methodological Propertarian, I support the Property and Freedom Society, The Mises Institute, and the Neo-Classical LIberalism Movement.Purpose
Anglo Conservatism is the remnant of Aristocratic philosophy and the Classical Liberal philosophy of the Enlightenment, combined with our ancient tribal instincts for group persistence and land-holding. It currently consists as a set of sentiments rather than as an articulated rational philosophy. And without that rational articulation, conservatives lack the ability to create and promote a plan that is a positive and rhetorically defensible alternative to the hazards of accidental bureaucracy and purposeful socialism.
This lack of an articulated philosophy leaves conservatives vulnerable in the public debate with Schumpeterian public intellectuals whose advantage in both volume of production, and simplicity of argument poses a nearly insurmountable challenge.
Libertarianism by contrast, is a rational philosophy of an articulate but permanent minority. It is based upon a solid, rational and critical methodology, even if it is flawed in its initial assumption: the principle of non-violence.
Unfortunately the Rothbardian Anarchist movement has appropriated the term "Libertarian", and left Classical Liberals and Conservatives alienated from the only system of thought with which they need to articulate their political sentiments in rational and empirical rather than moralistic and sentimental form.
By repairing the flaws in Libertarian philosophy we can use its methodology to provide a rhetorical solution for conservatives - a language which in turn may become an articulated philosophical body of argument and advocacy for the frustrated conservative majority.
Points To Ponder
Recent Posts
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Defining Capitalism
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Inverting The Argument: Inequality Is The Product Of Diversity
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Why Are Artificial Breasts All The Rage In Columbia?
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From Freedom To Slavery: The Five Evolutionary Stages Of Fiat Money
57 days ago -
Doolittle's Chart's On Political Preferences
64 days ago -
My Friend Karl Smith's Progressive Framing
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An Anti-Masculine Bias In Pornography Actors?
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Labor and Education Numbers Illustrate What's Wrong With Progressives And Keynesianism
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Keynesian Absurd Optimism
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Why Do Left-Leaning Economists Ignore IQ Data?
71 days ago
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Defining Capitalism