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6/23/2007   Kent State University College Libertarians
A website for this new organization.
 
1/7/2007   Skeptical About Skepticism
How come no skeptic ever doubts his own atheism?
 
12/2/2006   The History of the Iraq War
A secret insider document found.
 
11/27/2006   Bush and Saddam: 1, 2


Religion

12/30/2006   Aquinas' Five Ways, v. 2.1
His own exposition may be confusing, so here is an explanation of each "way."
 
12/19/2006   Understanding the Blessed Trinity, Part II
God is "quadriform"!
 
10/22/2006   Was Christ's Sacrifice Real?
Some atheists doubt it; I argue otherwise.
 
10/1/2006   The Body and Theodicy
On the connection between the two.
 
9/30/2006   Is God a Utilitarian? (updated)
On the nature of God's providential care of the world.
 
9/29/2006   Is Israel Special?
Not anymore.
 
9/28/2006   Understanding the Salvation History
Slaves, mercenaries, children of God.
 
9/27/2006   Understanding the Blessed Trinity
Holy, holy, holy.
 
   Questions About God... And Answers
More on honest atheistic confusions.
 
   The C.S. Lewis's Trilemma
Neither a liar nor a lunatic.
 
   The Purpose of the Abraham's Test
The why and wherefore.
 
1/30/2006   Signs of Intelligence: Replies to Critics
Answering objections to the legitimacy of intelligent design. (Includes a brief discussion of the problem of evil.)
 
1/20/2006   Signs of Intelligence
On evolution and intelligent design.
 
1/2/2006   Reply to Adrian Barnett on Atheism
The primitiveness of certain atheistic arguments.


Politics and Liberty

7/12/2007   Was the Entire Universe Made for Man?
Do animals have rights? Also, a postscript.
 
5/29/2007   A Checklist for Global Warming
What the global warmists are not asking.
 
10/6/2006   Power To the Juries
Restore jury nullification.
 
10/5/2006   The Bogeyman of Libertarian 'Atomism'
No, libertarians do not assume that "each person is an island."
 
9/21/2006   The Damage of Inflation
More on the causes and consequences of money creation. Discuss the article here.
 
12/26/2005   What's Up With Fiat Money?
Why we need a gold standard.
 
9/5/2006   Lessons From Star Trek
For business.
 
8/16/2006   The Peace of Death
From certain unhappy SPs.
 
8/9/2006   War as Chaos Enforcement
What the state brings to crime.
 
8/3/2006   Draft Sowell
A sad transformation of a great man.
 
7/29/2006   Attaining Both Security and Liberty
On the non-existent trade-off.
 
7/25/2006   If You Have Done Nothing Wrong
Have you anything to fear?
 
7/19/2006   Against the Welfare State
Bad philosophy and bad economics from one of my professors.
 
7/14/2006   Our Interests and Theirs
Making sense of the phrase "US interests."
 
7/4/2006   Down With the Unions
On federally empowered thuggery.
 
7/1/2006   The Mind of a Conservative
I probe deep.
 
6/20/2006   Whose Foreign Policy?
Let each person decide for himself.
 
6/16/2006   Drug War, What Is It Good For?
A review of Drug Crazy with commentary.
 
6/13/2006   The Sins of the Rulers
On Ezekiel and the judgment against a great commercial power that made war.
 
6/10/2006   A Massacre and an Omen
On Haditha.
 
6/6/2006   Soviet California
No universal preschool, please.
 
6/2/2006   Even Chickens Would Benefit
From a libertarian society. A postscript.
 
5/20/2006   Ideology and Social Evolution
A comparison of Rothbard and Hayek. To what extent are social institutions designed from the top down and to what extent are they self-generated?
 
4/4/2006   Are We Spiritual Machines?
On the odd Ray Kurzweil.
 
3/15/2006   A Government Press Release
Mostly ignored by the mainstream media.
 
2/18/2006   Sowell and His Efficient Police State
"But for the inefficiency of the law-givers and the laxity, carelessness, and corruption of many of the functionaries, the last vestiges of the market economy would have long since disappeared."
 
12/20/2005   Rotten Branches
Some general thoughts on the government.
 
12/16/2005   Our Sicko Prisons
The problems with prison rape as punishment.
 
12/10/2005   Conservative Statism
The parallels between conservatives and socialists.
 
9/13/2005   Is the US an Empire?
Max Borders says no, I say yes.
 
8/30/2005   Hanson on Hiroshima
Reconsider your collectivism, Victor.
 
7/24/2003   Science and the State
For the sake of liberty and civilization, they must be separated.
 
6/20/2003   Right-Opportunism
The dubious wisdom of "practical men."
 
5/24/2003   Can War Be Just?
Warfare, spiritual and otherwise.
 
4/16/2003   The Errors of War
Destroying evil and other silliness.
 
4/15/2003   Democracy, or Who Made You King?
Who, indeed.
 
4/14/2003   The Military Myth
There are millions of Communists in America. (You could be one of them.) What is the nature of their insidious plot?
 
3/4/2003   The SUV Controversy
How not to think about this problem.
 
9/22/2002   Reply to Bob Murphy on Pacifism
Best kept secret or fragility of the spirit?
 
8/26/2002   Wheels within Wheels
Evaluating conspiracy theories.
 
7/24/2002   Reflections on Race
Controversial! Risqué! I look into race differences (and cautiously endorse them).
 
   People Wanted
Steven Landsburg's paradoxes resolved.
 
   The Menagerie of Happy Men
All is quiet in Baghdad.
 
2/17/2002   On Blackmail
Nothing is more important than discussing the legality of blackmail. Except privatizing lighthouses.
 
2/16/2002   Memo To: Jude "Saruman" Wanniski
Give the government more power to do good by squelching things, this anti-war crusader says.


Letters

To Steven Landsburg
On spanking.

To Ted Rall
Is that guy for real?

To Paul Gottfried
Oldie but goodie. Thanks for the encouragement! Also see Gottfried's archive.

To Michael Bloomberg
Sent one month before the September 11 attack. Here is Bloomberg's reply.

To WSJ on Sanctions
What works and what doesn't.

To David Gordon
On atheism, Ayn Rand, etc.