Owning Labels

My morning perambulations around the Internet included a thread discussing what “libertarian” means in the context of foreign policy and a(nother) quiz that promised to place me on the political grid. The former is quite commonplace in libertarian circles,...

A to B

A common style of attack against libertarianism involves questioning how a libertarian world would handle a particular difficult situation. While it is legitimate and beneficial, when theorizing about the mechanics and minutiae of libertarianism (something that many...

College Humor

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld made Internet waves recently with an observation regarding comedians and colleges, wherein he observed that college kids today are too politically correct, too attached to making declarations they don’t fully understand, and that many...

Identity Politics vs The Individual

Try as I might, it seems I cannot escape the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner saga. When the story first broke, I pondered it for a little while, realized that I didn’t much care, said to myself “I hope he/she is happier now,” and looked for other things to...

Free Passes

Late last year, Rolling Stone magazine published a story written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, titled “A Rape On Campus,” that described how a woman, identified as “Jackie,” was raped by several members of a fraternity at the University of Virginia...