libertarianism
How free can you be inside a system designed for compliance?: Integralists
The curfew A fourteen-year-old is certain the curfew is oppression. She can articulate the injustice with perfect clarity. She is also wrong, in a way she will not understand for another decade, when she is the parent setting the curfew and discovering that the fear she dismissed... How free can you be inside a system designed for compliance?: Libertarians
She earned $20 a braid Melba braided hair for eleven years. Then Louisiana said she needed 500 hours of cosmetology school — chemical peels, thermal styling, none of it related to what she did. Tuition was five to fifteen grand. She shut down.... Neither King Nor Mob
INTRODUCTION Neither King Nor Mob I first encountered American politics as an argument, not a spectacle. At fifteen, I read The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist responses.... INTRODUCTION Neither King Nor Mob I first encountered American politics as an argument, not a spectacle. At fifteen, I read The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist responses.... Beyond Cheerleading and Doom: A Classical Liberal Reads Milei’s Argentina
I operate under the principle that no one is immune from legitimate criticism, including my own views and tribe. For readers of Meanderings of an Eccentric Economist, that means I approach Javier Milei and Argentina’s “libertarian experiment” neither as a cheerleader nor as a... I want a new archetype for libertarian well-being activist
Maybe it’s an old archetype and some German philosophers have been talking abt it for centuries… My climbing gym is called Crux; the original location is moving because the rent is too high, and the landlord won’t work with the climbing gym… The gym is in a part of the city that...