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Global Warming and the Growing Intellectual Bankruptcy of Libertarianism
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Gus diZerega
UPDATES BELOW. A California friend sent me the following post by Don Boudreaux, chair of the Dept. of Economics at Virginia’s George Mason University. Boudreaux had sent it to the Washington Times, apparently in response to an editorial. Cool reception “Let’s grant (if just for the sake of argument) that environmental scientists have proved that…
David Brin’s take on Adam Smith and Modern Conservatives
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Gus diZerega
David Brin, my favorite militant secularist, has some wise words on politics today on his blog. (Other than his usual little poke at the spiritual. But that is another discussion.) Among them are: All you have to do is imagine what the “first liberal” would say, if he were here today. Adam Smith would look…
Musings After a Period of Silence
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Gus diZerega
My blog has been silent for a while. First was the end of the semester rush, as papers, exams, and deadline piled on. Winter break then took me to Maine and Quebec, where I learned to ski (barely) at a marvelous resort east of Quebec City: Mont Sainte Anne. Soon afterwards I caught a nasty…
Steward Brand I: Environmentalism and Civil Society
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Gus diZerega
Stewart Brand is one of the most fascinating thinkers and doers to arise form the 60s. From his early involvement with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, here and here, to his editing the Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Evolution Quarterly (later Whole Earth Review ), founder of the Global Business Network and the Long Now…
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