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Category Archives: Libertarian Thought
Demonizing those who disagree
C Thi Nguyen writes, An ‘echo chamber’ is a social structure from which other relevant voices have been actively discredited. Where an epistemic bubble merely omits contrary views, an echo chamber brings its members to actively distrust outsiders. In their … Continue reading
Posted in Three-Axes Model
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Jordan Greenhall on media and society
He writes, This is the formal core of the Blue Church: it solves the problem of 20th Century social complexity through the use of mass media to generate manageable social coherence. He argues that mass media facilitated a form of … Continue reading
Posted in Libertarian Thought
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Try competing with Facebook
Tyler Cowen writes, I would instead start with the sentence “Most Americans don’t value their privacy or the security of their personal data very much,” and then discuss all the ways that limits regulation, or lowers the value of regulation, … Continue reading
A pro-civilization faction?
Jacob Lyles writes, ProCiv probably favors a daring approach to institutional reform. Institutions like governments, universities, and the health care system represent society’s collective intelligence. When they are operating well, society is effective, productive, and nimble in addressing crises. When … Continue reading
Immigration laws and others not enforced
Look at what I wrote more than 15 years ago. many laws are the legal equivalent of oxymorons – legamorons, if you will. A legamoron is any law that could not stand up under widespread enforcement. Laws against marijuana use … Continue reading
The Anti-tribal tribe
David Fuller writes, Recently a new meme started doing the rounds on the Internet — the “Intellectual Dark Web”. The phrase was coined by the mathematician Eric Weinstein. It seems to have caught on — showing that whatever it is, quite a few people … Continue reading
Russ Roberts on worker exploitation
He writes, When free-market types like myself hear about a worker who is made uncomfortable by inappropriate language or inappropriate physical contact on the job, our usual response is: quit. You don’t have to work for a crude, or worse — abusive … Continue reading
Posted in labor market, Libertarian Thought
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TLP makes a cameo appearance
in a new book by Eunice and Sabrina Moyle, called Be the Change. In the section of the book that discusses political activism, they write, Arnold Kling says that people tend to act according to a dominant axis–a trade-off between … Continue reading
Trump and TLP
Handle points out that the emergence of Donald Trump has scrambled the model of the Three Languages of Politics. For example, Even since Trump started his campaign, it seems to me that the progressives have been using “civilization vs. barbarism” … Continue reading
Posted in Three-Axes Model
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A metaphor for orthodoxy
From a commenter. this strikes me as the key value of conservatism: it gives people lots of index funds into which to sensibly invest their time, effort, and money. A well-civilized society has many, a barbarous one few. Traditional norms … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Three-Axes Model
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