Moldbug Interview

As the first part of our "Dissident Interviews" series, @L0m3z dialogues with Curtis Yarvin on Libertarianism, the Cathedral, Poetry and more: https://t.co/q7npnmfiia

— IM—1776 (@im_1776) September 3, 2021

Still Grifting

localism > federalism > unitarism

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) March 19, 2021

Amash Looking for a New Grift

Norman I will excuse for now, but Amash, the professional politician, I won't.

#Localism

Our federal system is meant for this.

We need to help everyone understand that it is in *everyone's* best interest

The promises that central power makes to purchase votes don't deliver. Only local systems are sensitive enough to solve our problems. https://t.co/m4236D4VZS

— Joe Norman (@normonics) January 21, 2021

Taleb May be Wrong on Trump

But his take on localism is ok.

For Libertarianism to survive & solve its otherwise fatal contradictions, it must embrace localism, & realize that Liberty is multiscale. https://t.co/c10fimJnew

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) January 17, 2021

A lot of North America is built in these high-maintenance layouts. We need to build smarter, in sustainable community formats rather than being dependent on new construction & crumbling infrastructure: The Illusion of Wealth: Curbside Chat https://t.co/rc5sZmhItm via @StrongTowns

— Rebecca Tiffany (@rebeccajtiffany) January 17, 2021

The Day of Right Libertarianism/Paleolibertarianism Is Over

Yesterday's interview with C. Jay Engel discussing a post-Libertarian worldview and what the future likely holds for conservatives. @ChroniclesMag @intellectualTO https://t.co/nhin0F6Qs5

— Devin Foley (@Swamp00Fox) October 13, 2020

C. Jay Engel's essay in the October issue of Chronicles:

From libertarianism to traditionalism: "The disarray that disturbs 21st century society is not merely a lack of [liberty], but more deeply a sense of loss regarding the character and essence of civil society, its structures, and its institutions." https://t.co/bgqqwMg9XM

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) October 8, 2020

Wilhelm Röpke's Liberalism

Wilhelm Röpke's book "showed market liberals how to move beyond the world of supply and demand, and it helped conservatives understand why economic freedom should be central to their creed." @drsamuelgregg https://t.co/no2CIAUhwu via @PublicDiscourse

— Jay W. Richards (@DrJayRichards) September 3, 2020

Subsidiarity

WHAT STATES CAN'T DO by Andrew Willard Jones

@suzania wrote a critique of Andrew Willard Jones' recent piece on subsidiarity, and you should certainly read it.https://t.co/O0MhqflqdY

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) September 1, 2020

Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes respond to Susannah Black @suzania on the question of subsidiarity within the new, postliberal, Christian society.https://t.co/TAeKe5f16X

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) September 2, 2020

I'm not going to take the time to cover all of the problems in both essays. With regards to Black's reply: Subsidiarity was always an unsuccessful attempt to deal with the state; authority proper to a political community does not scale up, and organization of political communities requires something other than the unitary state and its centralization of authority which it usurps. If we're going to try to discern political relationships in Genesis, perhaps the first political community, if it were truly self-sufficient with respect to political goods was constituted by Adam and Eve. But the more important political relationship would have been the one existing between Adam and his sons Cain and Abel, not as father and sons, but as political equals. (And I disagree with Filmer and his Patriarcha on this point.) With regards to the reply of Jones and Barnes to Black: While the production of virtue is an end of the political community, it is an end order to the primary end of the political community, which is political life or life in civic friendship. The state cannot produce virtue but it can produce habits in those subject to it. These habits are useful to those who are rule and make a man good for a particular (bad) regime, but not good simply. The family does have a role to play in forming its members in virtue, but because the family is an incomplete society, the formation it offers must be done in conjunction with the formation offered by the political community. The father has a role to play in educating his sons, but other men in that community have roles to play as well, and the goal of that formation is not to erase the inequality that exists between father and son by nature (as "biological" cause and effect) but to elevate the son to the status of a political equal in the case of a republican regime. As for using the mystical language of the Bridegroom and the Bride the Church to explain this, that has its own problems. Just one word on the mystical marriage of the Son and the Church: much of Latin theologizing about the mystical marriage involves imposing of human ideals and norms regarding marriage, and we see how ideas about "equality" and even "complementarity" influence theology. Even when the ministers of the Church are ordered to the ministry of the sacraments, this is not the Church being "given power over the distribution of God's grace" (what a Latin way of thinking about it), but the Church serving the Bridegroom, Christ, to whom She is conformed.

A Challenge to Libertarians

Honest question for libertarians: How do you propose we preserve "genuine, principles-based, rights-oriented classical liberalism" in the face of political & secular trends opposing it? https://t.co/X1HWySXS95 pic.twitter.com/H02yvbOANG

— Jeff Giesea⛱ (@jeffgiesea) August 4, 2020

Because During a Collapse, the Austrian School Is Still Relevant

Mises's Human Action is essential reading for any aspiring economist. But there can also be some pitfalls if we read it too casually. | Joseph T. Salerno @jtsalehttps://t.co/ShlqdC7Fk2

— Mises Institute (@mises) June 18, 2020

Patrick Deneen Responds to George Will

@PatrickDeneen counterpunches---hard. https://t.co/FXFmBFQIGW

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 17, 2020

Trying to Stay Relevant

How would police protection be furnished in a totally private economy? | Murray Rothbardhttps://t.co/6HX1iDRpuA

— Mises Institute (@mises) June 9, 2020

More from the Principled Libertarian

End qualified immunity.
End civil asset forfeiture.
End the drug war.
End overcriminalization.
End no-knock warrants.
End militarization of police.
End mandatory minimums.

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) June 7, 2020

The Libtard Solution

If we want to be serious about scaling back the degree to which police interactions with the public can lead to violent escalations, we must first scale back the number of offenses that can lead to serious fines and imprisonment. | @ryanmcmakenhttps://t.co/ZGPoqeRgmP

— Mises Institute (@mises) May 29, 2020

The solution is to permit the rise of organic communities which will police themselves through a common culture, standards of behavior, and virtues. That won't solve the crime problem, but it will allow communities to separate themselves from the mess that the state has created.

Freedom of Association

Freedom of association is important, but this essay strikes me as a typical libertarian/liberal exposition of that freedom. We can agree that there is a freedom of association, or a right of association, which cannot be infringed upon by some [higher] political authority.

Public Discourse: Reviving the Freedom of Association by Nathanael Blake

Blake builds upon this book from Kansas University Press: Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism by Luke C. Sheahan.

John Paul II Was a Libertarian!

Samuel Gregg doesn't make this actual claim but he wants to appropriate John Paul II for liberalism.

How John Paul II reminded us that liberty and truth are inseparable – Acton Institute PowerBlog

⁦@DrSamuelGregg⁩ for the internet win of the day! https://t.co/ARyJe49lBD

— Bradley J. Birzer (@bradleybirzer) May 21, 2020

Centesimus Annus is often praised—rightly, in my view—for being the modern social encyclical most attentive to economics as a social science. This owed much to John Paul II’s willingness to meet and have serious discussions with prominent economists who themselves occupied a variety of positions on the economic policy spectrum while the encyclical was being drafted.

Economics is a practical science; academics need to take shortcuts and make assumptions about human behavior in order to have predictive models because the system with which they deal is too big.

A Catholic Liberal

or libertarian... Samuel Gregg.

A true believer in the oligarch's "free markets" and "free trade"...








Law and Liberty podcast

Makes me question if Acton himself was able to make the connection between his brand of liberalism and the loss of political liberty that he supposedly feared. Maybe Acton was just another intellectual whoring himself out for the elites.

A Libertarian Makes the Case for Localism

There we go, an intelligent version of libertarianism! https://t.co/GlzYqx3oWj

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) May 10, 2020

And Latins gonna Latin...

the shire can’t exist without a stronger political force to protect it https://t.co/oqPY22kxnd

— joe barnas 🦔 (@BarnasJoe) May 11, 2020

The purpose of self-defense do not require the existence of a unitary state.

Taleb Shreds Libertarians

2) PRINCIPIA POLITICA shows the effects of scale/localism.
Systemic harm has no tort laws (you can't sue a virus) so you MUST use the Precautionary Principle.

Many libertarians are just cranks & sociopaths.https://t.co/LIT73xCfCT

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) May 5, 2020

4) "Libertarians" are also incoherent: they deny stores the right to require masks & constrain their freedom yet ask for freedom...
Nothing to do with libertarianism: rather a collection of marshmallowbrained psychopaths and misfits taking their hatred of humanity too far.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) May 5, 2020

Brion McClanahan on Justin Amash and the Libertarian Party

Steve Sailer: Flight from White, Part 472

And your point? https://t.co/xCLZJFCuxF

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) May 2, 2020

Tom Woods on Libertarian Culture Wars