During our last debate, an audience member asked Mark Krikorian if his arguments for restricting immigration of foreigners were also arguments for restricting the child-bearing of natives. You might think that Mark would insist that native babies are somehow better than foreign adults. How hard could it possibly be to craft such an argument? However, Mark adamantly refused to compare the worths of different kinds of people. Instead, he informed the questioner that his question was based on a “category error.”
Tag: value
Billionaires in a Free Market
Someone else having a billion dollars does no harm to you. Fight for freedom, not against others having arbitrary amounts of money.
The Problems We Must Solve Are Too Important to Reduce to Left vs. Right Politics
When considering a way forward, the discussion initially seems to be complicated because there are a lot of things that have gone wrong in the aftermath of George Floyd’s tragic death.
Billionaires, Freedom, Stoicism, & Police Brutality (28m) – Episode 323
Episode 323 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: billionaires, what they do with their wealth and how to properly redistribute it through an increase to market competition; the difference between liberty and freedom and how unfree America really is; the value in his study and practice of Stoicism as it concerns driving around town for work; who the police are and why they aren’t your friend and protector; and more.
Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty: The New Republic
I’ve been waiting to read the fifth volume of Murray Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty for over 30 years. Now my former student Patrick Newman, professor at Florida Southern College, has miraculously undeleted this “lost work.” Patrick’s quasi-archaeological efforts are nothing short of amazing, but how does the actual book hold up?
The Liberty of Homesteading (1h49m) – Episode 025
Episode 025: Jared invited Ben from the Homesteads and Homeschools podcast, TX Joe from the Insurgency Knitting Circle podcast and Dagorist the homesteader on the show to discuss how sometimes the voluntaryist philosophy can lead to homesteading. These guys shared a lot of knowledge and inspiration and he knows you’ll get a ton of value from this show. Enjoy!
COVID-19: Freedom Means That We Can Do Stupid Things, Not That We Have To
Yes, as freedom returns, some people will throw caution entirely to the winds. They should be free to act like idiots, right up to the point they actually — not prospectively, not hypothetically, ACTUALLY — cause harm to non-consenting others. They should also be free to refrain from acting like idiots.
Toxic Personal Freedom & Labor Theory of Value (34m) – Episode 310
Episode 310 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following entries to r/shitstatistssay: Little-Bears_11-2-16 writes, “I’m an American and I’m fed up with this bullshit. Our country is beyond selfish and it’s destroying the nation.”; and Pascal Morimacil writes, “Why is the labor theory of value no longer considered correct? Because it is inconvenient.”
5 Things I Learned Debating the Harvard Prof Who Called for a “Presumptive Ban” on Homeschooling
Last week, I outlined much of my argument against Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet that I incorporated into our debate, but here are five takeaways from Monday’s discussion.
Values and Principles Against Ideological Jargon
The ideological jargon of hard totalitarianism aims at the subversion of values, while the ideological jargon of soft totalitarianism aims at the reduction of values to self-indulgent mush.