From the monthly archives:

January 2007

How to Predict the Behavior of Government Officials, and Other Observations by Albert Jay Nock

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 31, 2007 @ 2:18 pm Featured Posts

Old MySpace Blogpost (June 7, 2006): Here are some choice passages from the collection of some of Albert Jay Nock’s essays, The State of the Union: Essays in Social Criticism. While spending time in Europe he remarked: “Here I saw the State behaving just as I had seen it behave at home [the USA]. Moreover, [...]

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Jefferson on the Right of Nullification

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 31, 2007 @ 2:15 pm Featured Posts

Old MySpace Blogpost (June 6, 2006): Many Straussians, Lincoln-idolators (many of whom are Straussians), and other statists like to suppress the fact that the states had the right to secede from the “Union” as well as the right to nullify legislative enactments they thought were unconstitutional. As one piece of evidence that these rights were [...]

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Bill Kauffman, Reactionary Radicals, and Radical vs. Reactionary Politics

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 21, 2007 @ 8:12 am Featured Posts

Old MySpace Blogposts: From May 20, 2006: Bill Kauffman, author of Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists – localist conservative anarchist, Jeffersonian decentralist, and reactionary radical – whose book I just began slowly reading, has a group blog [which unfortunately looks to be ended] to promote his book. Check out [...]

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Blogging Again

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 18, 2007 @ 2:39 pm Blogging

Roderick asks here whether I will ever blog again. I’ll try, but I keep forgetting, usually because I’m busy with academic-related things or simply prefer to read some fiction or watch tv. I have actually been blogging a bit on my MySpace page. I think I’ll stop doing philosophical and political blogs over there though [...]

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