Nobody asked but … Ubi est iustitia? This is Latin for “where is justice?” I have been listening to a very interesting podcast, Russ Roberts’ Econtalk, with his guest Paul Robinson, on Cooperation, Punishment and the Criminal Justice System. The gist is that even the most transitory societies may impose rudimentary justice, even at the…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #68 — Real Voluntaryism
Voluntaryism is not just individualism. Your voluntaryism is every association that you make voluntarily. You own your associations. You own the facts of where and when you were born and all of the places where and when you have lived. You own the facts of who, where, and when you know other living beings. You…
Illinois Lottery Announcement
Nobody asked but … Wait! So you thought you won the Illinois Lottery? Sorry. You will get paid when we decide you will get paid. Are you one of those folks that believes that tributes to the oligarchy are what you pay for the bargain of civilization? Gotcha! Are you one of those minions who…
Words Poorly Used #67 — Real Libertarian
Lately, I have been seeing a number of references to what “a libertarian” would think or do. An example is “would a libertarian support Israel?” But this blog is not about Israel or foreign policy, it is about the far more universal vice of labeling. One of the real problems with labeling is the ad…
Dollars and Dimes
Nobody asked but … Down here in Kentucky, the philosophers among us sometimes use the phrase, “why that’s like a doller waiting on a dime!” This is a colorful restatement of the even older, and folksier, “penny wise and pound foolish.” So here’s why I am referring to this ancient wisdom (I’m sure there must…
Words Poorly Used #66 — Faith
G. K Chesterton wrote, “Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” But I cannot remember ever having made such a leap with regard to reason. I intuit that reason is arrived at by an exercise of inherent…
Facts
Nobody asked but … If “might” makes “rights,” then they are “privileges” not “rights.” This raises the problem that we have no concrete definition of “rights” in a statist context. I really like Skyler’s idea that might includes reason, which has as much power to create structure as does coercion. I guess I don’t really adhere…
Selfie
Nobody asked but … from my alter ego, Verbal Vol: We can only see what we now see until we devise a way to see something new. Cartesian physics gave way to Newtonian physics which led to relativity and further to probabilistic ideas from quantum physics. Butwe will never know if that which is now…
Fatal Traffic Stop
Nobody asked but … I saw a really good question come out of the recent event wherein a public university LEO (*) shot and killed an unarmed driver after a minor registration stop. How many lives of citizens and LEOs will we continue to expend for government revenue generation? It is interesting to note that…
Libertarian Tradition
Nobody asked but …I could not help but share this link with you. This is the Bob Wenzel Show podcast and the guest is Walter Block. People like Walter, and Lew Rockwell, and Bob Higgs, and Tom Woods are our remaining connections to Murray Rothbard. What I liked so much about this podcast was Walter…