Category: Philosophy

Slash and burn.

Featured Image by hanming_huang. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Jeff Bezos is stepping down at Amazon. The media presents its puff pieces, like the one from NBC News, a puff piece that portrays him in near heroic terms, touching only lightly on some of the anti-trust “concerns” in the US and […]

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Why I left conservatism

I am a disillusioned conservative, which is why I became a Libertarian. I continue to listen to conservative voices like Michael Knowles, Steven Crowder, and Ben Shapiro, but I hear many of the same arguments from them that I hear from the collectivist left. I will focus on Knowles for a moment. I enjoy his […]

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Media Priorities

Featured Image from KnowYourMeme.com. Follow the link for more memes. I typically stayed away from the idea of corporate socialism. It didn’t sit well with me that the government and the large financial institutions would be so intertwined. It grated against the deeply held beliefs that I had about the desire for being free. But […]

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Death of a Social Free-Market.

Featured image by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Follow the link for more. When I think of a market, I think of typically financial transactions, places where goods and services are exchanged with a relative degree of choice and freedom. The markets aren’t entirely free by design, and are regulated by the government to ensure that […]

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Getting into the Philosophical

Featured image by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Follow the link for more. I’m getting into more of a philosophical mood. I was reading an article from Reason.com The text of the article is below. Three Lessons for Libertarian Populists A revolt against the corporate state is a great idea. How do you make it more […]

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