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Mythbuster: Libertarianism and Unchosen Obligations

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 18, 2010 @ 2:30 pm Featured Posts

It is a common mistake, made even by some libertarians and former libertarians, that libertarians reject the idea of unchosen obligations. Gene Callahan, apparently a former libertarian turned communitarian, is the latest to make this mistake. He says: Obligation . . . is the crucial idea denied by libertarian political theory.1 Well, this is just [...]

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How to Mirror a Censored WordPress Blog

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 17, 2010 @ 8:51 pm Featured Posts

A couple of days ago David mentioned on The Libertarian Standard that the Mises Institute providing its entire online media and literature library as a set of free torrents can be seen as part of a distributed or grassroots intellectual guerrilla resistance against the state. This is just one aspect of the Mises Institute’s effort [...]

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If you don’t like it, leave — for a price

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 28, 2010 @ 12:29 pm Featured Posts

A common retort that libertarians, even minarchists, hear when criticizing ‘their’ government is “If you don’t like it, then just leave.”1 Indeed, residency is perceived to be one piece of evidence (among others, like voting, paying taxes, etc.) for one’s implicit consent to the state and its rules. Just leave. As if there are better alternatives. [...]

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The Libertarian Standard

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 8, 2010 @ 9:47 am (Austrian) Economics

There’s a new website and group blog in town, by a great group of radical Austro-Libertarians, including yours truly. It’s The Libertarian Standard. I’ve been pre-occupied with admin work for the site the past couple weeks, getting it set up and looking nice, but I’ll be getting around to blogging relatively soon. I’ll probably be [...]

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Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm (Austrian) Economics

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court‘s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book. I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of [...]

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My JLS Atlas Shrugged Article, Finally!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 12, 2009 @ 11:20 am Aristotelian Liberalism

The “final” issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is finally available online, although it looks like there will be one more final issue for all the other accepted but unpublished articles. This is the Atlas Shrugged Symposium issue, the last issue edited by Roderick Long, and I’m proud to say it includes an article [...]

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Oughtism and Its Cure

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 29, 2009 @ 2:06 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

I decided to rename my blog “Is-Ought GAP: The Cure for Oughtism,” simultaneously turning separate eristic jokes by Stephan Kinsella and another libertarian on their heads.1 The following are some excerpts from two sections of one chapter of Veatch’s For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory. Veatch calls the mentality he [...]

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My dissertation is completed, approved and now online

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 21, 2009 @ 2:01 pm (Austrian) Economics

Well, I finally finished my dissertation and now it’s available online for anyone to read. I actually defended it on December 2nd. My committee approved it under the condition that I make some revisions, which is not an unusual occurrence. They mainly wanted me to flesh out and clarify some things in chapters five and [...]

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The New Apple iMissile

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 18, 2008 @ 12:17 am Business

In recent news, Apple has joined the military-industrial complex. Get ready to say hello to the new iMissile. No offense, fanboys and girls. It’s my first LOLcat. Like it? (I added just the Apple logo and the text, someone else had already put the cat in.)

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Recipe: Spiced Basmati Rice with Peanuts

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 11, 2008 @ 7:21 pm Featured Posts

Ingredients 1 cup uncooked basmati rice 2 tbsp vegetable oil or ghee (clarified butter) or combination 2 14oz cans tomatoes (I prefer one can diced, the other petite cut/diced) 1/2 medium onion, diced 5 medium cloves garlic, diced 1 jalapeno, diced 1/2 cup Planter’s cocktail peanuts 2 tsp cumin seed 1/2 tsp turmeric powder 1 [...]

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