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On Naming Names in My Oliver Stone Article

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An interesting discussion broke out yesterday on Facebook over my article “Conservative Hypocrisy on Oliver Stone.” One of the discussants asked why I hadn’t identified the people I was critiquing. Ordinarily, when dealing with conservatives, I have no reservations in identifying the people I am critiquing. For example, as the Guardian reported, the conservative Wall Street Journal published on July 5, 2013, an editorial entitled “After the Coup in Egypt,” which stated in part: “Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Augusto Pinochet, who took power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy.” A bit more than a month later, on August 13, 2013, the Journal published an editorial entitled “Venezuelan Leader Seeks to Boost His Power,” which criticized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for seeking expanded powers. That is standard conservatism — supporting dictatorships and opposing dictatorships at essentially the same time. My objective in ...

Conservative Hypocrisy on Oliver Stone

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One year ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation presented what we called “a conference within a conference” at the annual conference of the Students for Liberty, a student-run libertarian group that is, once again, holding their annual conference in Washington, D.C., this coming weekend — February 13-15, 2015. The theme of our mini-conference last year was “Civil Liberties and the National Security State.” Given that a considerable number of libertarians who come into the movement as conservatives have a difficult time abandoning their conservative views on foreign policy, civil liberties, foreign interventionism, empire, the war on terrorism, and the national-security state, we believe that it is critically important to apprise young libertarians of the libertarian position on these issues, especially since the warfare state constitutes a much graver threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people than the welfare state. Thus, the goal of our mini-conference was to raise the vision of young libertarians to the critical importance of civil ...

Private: Conservative Hypocrisy on Oliver Stone

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One year ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation presented what we called “a conference within a conference” at the annual conference of the Students for Liberty, a student-run libertarian group that is, once again, holding their annual conference in Washington, D.C., this coming weekend — February 13-15, 2015. The theme of our mini-conference last year was “Civil Liberties and the National Security State.” Given that a considerable number of libertarians who come into the movement as conservatives have a difficult time abandoning their conservative views on foreign policy, civil liberties, foreign interventionism, empire, the war on terrorism, and the national-security state, we believe that it is critically important to apprise young libertarians of the libertarian position on these issues, especially since the warfare state constitutes a much graver threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people than the welfare state. Thus, the goal of our mini-conference was to raise the vision of young libertarians to the critical importance of civil ...

Fed Follies: Central Bank Continues to Force Economy in Wrong Direction

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For more than a decade, now, Federal Reserve policy has been guided by the fear of one economic bogyman: the presumed danger of “price deflation.” The fear is unfounded and the inflationary “solution” only leads to disaster. During Alan Greenspan’s and Ben Bernanke’s watches at the helm of America’s central bank and now under Janet Yellen, the claim has been ...

A Conservative Dissents from the Corporate Status Quo

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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman, (Public Affairs 2013), 768 pages. Most leftist critiques of libertarianism focus on an alleged blind defense of corporate power. Indeed, left-libertarian Kevin Carson has helpfully criticized the very real problem of “vulgar libertarianism,” the working assumption that current economic realities are a product of free-market dynamics ...

What About Racism in Government Programs?

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With all the furor over racial bigotry stirred up by the Donald Stirling/Los Angeles Clippers controversy, my question is: How come all the people who condemn Stirling’s racial bigotry continue to support government programs that inflict great harm on African Americans? I’m referring in particular to three such programs: the drug war, minimum-wage laws, and occupational-licensure laws. While there are undoubtedly ...