The ironic thing for me about the Hoppe vs Carson debate is that while I am a big fan of the work of both men, I doubt I would ever get invited to a gathering of either the Property and Freedom Society or the Center for a Stateless […]
Anarchists and libertarians should be the foremost critics of this kind of thing. Unfortunately, many of them are among its primary perpetrators. Says one of these moronic students: “‘The idea that in a free society absolutely everything should be open to debate has a detrimental effect on marginalised […]
By Kelley Vlahos The American Conservative Frontpage / Shutterstock.com Analysts were right to say that the Republican takeover of Congress bodes well for the war machine: already we see the levers of power slowly shifting in reverse, eager to get back to salad days of post-9/11 wartime spending. […]
The money quote comes at the end of this article. This is also my prediction: “In the next 30 or 40 years I have left to live, I expect to see liberal forms of religion die out, and conservative forms become more conservative — this, while the great […]
This article represents the standard left-wing response to common white nationalist and other right-wing arguments concerning demographic change in the United States. I am not a white nationalist or racialist of any kind, nor do I embrace the racial determinism that is implicit in much present day “far […]
On that at least, we can agree. This is a really interesting talk. This fellow’s worldview and ideology are very much in the vein of classical, eighteenth century, “throne and altar” conservatism. If you were a “conservative” in the late 1700s and early 1800s, this is how you […]
These comments are based on a recent debate I was having in a social media forum concerning the future of anarchist movements. What follows is a collection of comments I made within the context of a wider discussion. I apologize for the disjointed nature of this post in […]
White nationalists, what say you? By Robert Lindsay Negrofication Magnification Ratios said: Very few white supremacists actually exist. The reality is that most so called white supremacists are in fact white separatists. They are wrongly labeled. The vast majority are simply interested in living in a white state. […]
By Chuck Spinney The Blaster Introduction to the Changing Face of War Uri Avnery’s thoughtful essay Scotland on the Euphrates questions the future viability of the nation-state as a form of social organization. His concerns are not new, although as Avnery noted, recent events certainly make them more believable — […]
I am not big on voting, and I haven’t voted in 20 years. Before that, I occasionally voted for Democrats, largely on antiwar grounds. I have cast a ballot for a Republican only once, and never in a general election. I did vote against the Rev. Pat Robertson […]
Interesting. The Skeptical Libertarian. We libertarians like to gripe about all the things that are getting worse for freedom in this country, but along some dimensions, the libertarian agenda of personal liberty is winning: from the right to marry to the right to carry, America has become much more […]
Before there can be Left party, there has to be a class base for the Left. Take the example of the Green Party, probably the largest left party in the U.S. at present.The problem with the Green Party, aside from the usual problems that plague all third parties, […]
I was recently trying to think of all the arguments that have been offered against the ATS philosophy and strategy. I would define the ATS position as follows: 1. The international plutocratic empire is the enemy of all mankind except a small number of people who are its […]
A must read. By Deepa Kumar Open Democracy Colonial feminism is based on the appropriation of women’s rights in the service of empire and has been widely utilised in justifying aggression in the Middle East. But is it liberal? In a recent CNN interview, religion scholar Reza Aslan […]
Not bad. It looks like someone has been reading ATS. I certainly hope the Alternative Right/Neo-Reactionary/Dark Enlightenment evolves in this direction. I noticed in the comments threads at Radix that some of the fascists and white supremacists aren’t too happy with this piece, lol. By Batu Caliskan Radix […]
I posted these thoughts in the comments thread in response the recent article, “The True Global Minority,” by Bay Area Guy from Alternative Right, and follow up comments by “Dota.” I’m reposting this as a main blog entry because I think it summarizes the current “state of the […]
Duh? By Brendan James Talking Points Memo AP Photo / Patrick Semansky ByBrendan JamesPublishedApril 18, 2014, 10:43 AM EDT 627520 views A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page […]
By David Morris Common Dreams Ballot initiatives more accurately take the ideological pulse of the people because debates over issues are not disrupted by the personality politics and subterfuge that dominate candidate races. (Photo: Susy Morris/flickr/cc) On November 4th Democrats lost big when they ran a candidate but […]
“Politically, we have here an interesting basis for the conscious co-operation of the radical Left-wingers and the New Right, as well as with religious and other anti-modern movements, such as the ecologists and Green theorists, for example. The only thing that we insist on in creating such a […]
By Ryan McMaken LewRockwell.Com The Catalonian regional government has signaled that it plans to go ahead with a vote on secession from Spain on Sunday, November 9. The Spanish central government insists that the vote is illegal and the Spanish state will not recognize any vote for secession. […]
By John W. Whitehead Rutherford Institute LewRockwell.Com We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid […]
It should be remembered that most of the world’s nations and cultures are exceedingly conservative when compared with the West. This is a fact that will have to be recognized during the course of building a global resistance to the international plutocracy and the American empire. By Bay […]
By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Constantine Pankin / Shutterstock.com Tuesday’s Republican tide wasn’t surprising, but there’s more to be said about it than just the obvious. The obvious is that this class of Senate seats was last up in 2008, a presidential year that was the high-water […]
Here is an illustration of what I mean by totalitarian humanism: ““Rather than deny the shift, or stop at trying to reverse it in legislatures, the courts and at ballot boxes, conservatives are instead attempting to erect a legal architecture that will wall them off from the growing […]
Maybe now the cultural left can get a life. By Valerie Tarico Alternet Days may be dark right now—after all, as the memes proclaim, axial tilt is the reason for the season. But things are looking bright for those who would like to see humanity more grounded in […]
Imagine in the year 2044 a poll is taken showing the following results: 10% of Americans consider themselves to be anarchists. 20% consider themselves to be “hard-core” libertarians. 20% consider themselves to be “moderate” libertarians. 20% consider themselves to be “libertarian-leaning.” 55% say that would prefer decentralizing the […]
By Emily Ekins Reason.Com Handsraised Yesterday, Rachel Burger at Townhall made the case that “Libertarianism isn’t confined to Caucasians anymore.” Data from both the Pew Research Center and the Reason-Rupe poll bolster her thesis, particularly among younger people. Pew finds that roughly equal numbers of white (12%) and Hispanic Americans (11%) say the term […]
By Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Katerha/Flickr “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” The question was put to New York Times Magazine readers by journalist Robert Draper, who has elicited disdainful responses from Paul Krugman of the Times, Jonathan Chait of New York, and my colleague David Frum. All three […]
The resistance is growing. By Matt Agorist Free Thought Project The citizens of California let the establishment know how they felt about the drug war and mass incarceration Tuesday in a landmark vote. With the passage of Proposition 47 as many as 10,000 people could be eligible for […]
The revolution against the War on Drugs is spreading. Sometime during the 1990s I decided that the best way to fight the drug war police state would be for its opponents to work to gain political power at the local level and fight it from the bottom up. […]
Sorry, free-market absolutist libertarians, but “Let them eat cake!” is a non-starter during a time of growing poverty and widening class divisions. Libertarians and anarchists need to move past fanatical views on economics, and develop a more pragmatic libertarian-populist progressive-conservative radical-center idistributist-decentralist approach that can appeal to the […]
By David Swanson Counterpunch.Org Is it worse to put into Congress or the White House someone who wants to end wars and dismantle much of the military but also wants to abolish Social Security and Medicare and the Department of Education and several other departments they have trouble […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com The Obama administration “has no foreign policy,” says Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice-presidential candidate. While we may tune out this kind of election year rhetoric, similar complaints – no matter which president is being denounced – are common on both sides of […]
What was once forbidden is now mandatory. What was once mandatory is now forbidden.
By Richard Socarides The New Yorker Tim Cook introduces the new Apple products during a special event in Cupertino, California, on September 9, 2014. Tim Cook introduces the new Apple products during a special event in Cupertino, California, on September 9, 2014. Credit Photograph by Xinhua News Agency […]
The state of higher education at America’s most prestigious university. Russia Today Harvard University is renowned the world over for the Ivy League education its students are offered, and the curriculum there this week indeed contains a class or two you’d be hard press to find elsewhere. As […]
Unfortunately, some folks on the rightist end of libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, or “anarchism of the right” have been veering off into this neo-reactionary, nostalgic monarchist, or neo-fascist stuff just as some on the left end of anarchism and libertarianism have veered off into social democracy (Chomsky), totalitarian humanism (the […]
1 hr · I’m not big on voting, but if I had my pick I suppose I’d prefer gridlocked government where one party has the presidency and the other party has the Congress. Same at the state level: one party controlling the governorship and the other controlling the […]
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By Eric Margolis Ron Paul Institute Saturday November 1, 2014 “Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland […]
Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance speaks at the H.L. Mencken Club. Listen to the audio of the speech here. When I was invited to address this gathering on the subject of “The European Right,” I rather think I was expected to bring with me a note […]
By Paul Mulshine By Paul Mulshine | The Star Ledger Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of “most brilliant physicist […]
By David Orr Yale University The awareness that humans could alter the climate of Earth has dawned slowly on our consciousness. In 1896, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius deflected his anguish over a failed marriage into remarkably tedious and, as it turned out, accurate calculations about the effect of […]
By Jamelle Bouie The Daily Beast The RNC’s ill-worded tweet about the “end” of racism is a nice time to remember that racial bias is still real and still affects millions of Americans. This past Sunday, to commemorate the anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott—a long-planned assault on […]
By Fred Reed As I write America waits, again, to see whether blacks will riot, this time in Ferguson. Will they loot, burn, kill, and rape? The usual? The police in Ferguson prepare to protect stores from looters, as rioters seem to regard their insurrections as shopping opportunities. […]
By Frank Serpico Politico.Com Watch the classic film here. n the opening scene of the 1973 movie “Serpico,” I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al Pacino, is shot in the face. Even today it’s very difficult for […]
I originally posted this nearly five years ago, but I would still stand by every word. 1. I agree with the Augustinian view of the state as a robber band writ large. 2. I agree with the Stirnerite view of political obligation. Why should I obey this guy […]
While I’m not a fan or supporter of this guy, he may be opening some doors that those of us with a much more radical position can make use of in the future. By Jack Hunter The American Conservative “The Kentucky senator has consistently challenged long-held GOP views […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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