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A Letter to a Friend, by Laurance Labadie

I encountered this letter whilst leafing through my copy of the individualist anarchist anthology Enemies of Society. Like those by L.A. Rollins and Aschwin De Wolf, this hard-nosed critique of natural rights serves as a succinct corrective to much of … Continue reading

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Walter Kaufmann on “Equality of Opportunity”

Right now, I’m having an enjoyable time reading through my years-long-neglected hardcover copy of Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy, a relatively obscure work by prominent Fritz-translator Walter Kaufmann. I’m thinking about dedicating a post or two to … Continue reading

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Duty: Mencken Delivers the Deathblow!

First printed in the Smart Set, May 1919, p. 51. Reprinted in A Second Mencken Chrestomathy, 1994, p. 351. Some of the loosest thinking in ethics has duty for its theme. Practically all writers on the subject agree that the … Continue reading

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Transtopia lays the smack down on PC…

From an earlier version of the Transtopia website: If you support PC you’re either a hypocrite, a coward, or a fool; honest, brave, and rational people can never, by definition, tolerate -let alone actively support- PC for pretty much the … Continue reading

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Halal & Hypocrisy V: From Inferno to Ember…

So he called it off? I must say, I’m disappointed. When I first heard that Florida pastor Terry Jones planned to create a Koran bonfire to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, I felt a visceral revulsion; as … Continue reading

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The Nigger in the Woodpile

They thought they could chain it down… …they thought they could fling it overboard… …they thought they could whip it into a bloody mess… …they thought they could lynch the motherfucker! Failing that, they tried throwing some fucking tyres round … Continue reading

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Some Great Anti-Democracy Quotes

Mr. Gray protests against censorship as undemocratic. (Censorship may be illiberal — against freedom — but not necessarily against the majority.) Mr. Black is against Negro lynching, denouncing it as undemocratic. (As soon as the majority of a township wants … Continue reading

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Interesting—a Threefold K.O!

I’d say the root of the libertarian dead end is looking at the idealized “human,” rather than the existing advanced primate. It’s a bit ironic that both conservatives and the left have a love/hate relationship with evolution/genetics etc. On the … Continue reading

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Have Faith in Faith? MRDA Considers Suicide…

I’m sure there’s more to say, but, for now, this shall suffice…. Reading about Andy Nowicki’s Considering Suicide on the Hoover Hog intrigued me; having embraced the cold, uncaring void as the reality underlying existence, I found myself fascinated by … Continue reading

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The Manifesto of Joseph Andrew Stack (R.I.P): Reprinted for Posterity

Feel free to scroll if you don’t wanna read: I ain’t LJ-cutting this! If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming … Continue reading

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