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You were getting a degree in literature; there’s no such thing as Hayekian literary criticism

This is James’ cashapp, I have no idea yet if he’ll need legal fund contributions or anything but pay him anyway just so he can buy some good vinyls

James Konkin did NOTHING wrong

James has a new trial date. June 1. New scheduling order as of 2/9. Not on RECAP/CourtListener.

I no longer identify as a libertarian, because I no longer believe in the political process. It’s hard to put into words, but I just don’t see how the current system is beneficial, and I don’t want to participate in it any longer.

Alright I can’t sleep so here’s a thread about one of the most entertaining, and creepy, stories I know. The story of Neelix and his 80,000+ Wikipedia pages about tits.

While many libertarians are, from a postliberal point of view, awful on social issues – abortion, drugs, pornography and sexuality in general – they often produce penetrating critiques of economic and war-making policy that identify perverse incentives, unintended consequences, limitations on knowledge available to planners, and so forth. Yes, these arguments are often deployed in the service of an excessively rigid attachment to the market and excessive hostility to state power. Absolutely true. But it would be foolish to throw the baby out with the bathwater and neglect the real problems they raise – just as (as postliberals have long rightly emphasized) it is foolish dogmatically to refuse to acknowledge that there are insights in some left-wing criticisms of capitalism. (As always, Thomists have the advantage of following Aquinas’s wise example of being willing to acknowledge and incorporate insights from any quarter.) In my opinion, one of the insights of postliberalism – certainly of postliberalism informed by Thomism and Catholic social theory – is that we need to be less ideological about public policy, and acknowledge how much of the details depend on prudential judgment under contingent circumstances and cannot be deduced a priori from first principles (whether libertarian, neoliberal, Rawlsian egalitarian liberal, or socialist first principles).