Posts tagged “politics”

Runaway Process

Why did a healthy oak, older than the town that killed it, actually have to die? Not the proximate answer — a hazard report, a rejected second opinion, a […]

A Third View of the State

Political philosophy usually hands you two options for what the state actually is, and asks you to pick a side. The liberal tradition, running from Locke through the American founding to most modern minarchists, treats the state as a neutral […]

Why Neither Party Wants Social Liberty

Nothing on this site sorts cleanly onto a ballot line, and that's worth addressing directly rather than treating as an accident of subject matter. [Personal Sovereignty](/posts/personal-sovereignty) argued that a Millian respect for individual judgment is the irreducible unit underneath the […]