Writing in Reason Magazine, Damon Root attempts to rehabilitate the image of “social Darwinist” Herbert Spencer. Root’s article is based on a forthcoming article by Princeton University economist Tim Leonard who blames Spencer’s poor reputation on historian Douglas Hofstadter. Hofstadter was a socialist, and so the free market capitalist Spencer was a perfect villain, especially…
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One of the frustrating things about being a libertarian is that almost by definition any libertarian who actually makes a serious run for a national office also tends to be a complete nutter. The Libertarian Party remains a bad joke and the Republican Party give us libertarians like Ron Paul. Since the late 1970s, Paul…
One of the fun things about running a site like this is people are always sending me links to their libertarian-oriented web sites — most of which I would never have run across on my own. One of the better sites I’ve run across in this way in the past few months is LibertyBoard.Org. I’m…
It happened again. Last week another prisoner on Illinois’ death row was exonerated after new evidence (DNA tests in this case) proved someone else committed the crime. This is getting to be a habit in Illinois. Since 1987, an average of one death row inmate every year has been cleared of the crime for which…