Mar 31, 2010

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Taking Our Own Side

We all have natural partialities: for family over non-kin, friends over strangers, fellow countrymen over foreigners, racial brethren over members of other races. Philosophers from Aristotle to Carl Schmitt have recognized that these partialities are the heart of political life.But most moralists eye these partialities with suspicion. Moral laws, they claim, apply to everyone,...

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Dec 8, 2009

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A Critique of Ayn Rand on Race

Today I read Any Rand’s 1963 essay “Racism.” I had read Atlas Shrugged as a teenager. It was a little too absolutist for me but I called myself a libertarian for years afterward and still do to a great extent. I find the argument that the vast majority of what states do is coercion convincing, but I can’t completely accept Rand’s morality. Once a person has...

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Oct 19, 2009

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Race and Groups:
The Libertarian Blind Spot

John Donne could never have been a libertarian because he believed that “No man is an island,” while libertarians seem to prefer a sort of reverse philosophy which holds that every man is an island. In particular, libertarians are so busy celebrating “the individual” that they give little or no attention to a phenomenon which is at least as important as...

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Sep 16, 2009

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More from Hunter Wallace on Libertarianism

“Linder and Libertarianism”from Occidental Dissent, September 12, 2009Libertarians tend to think in abstract terms. They have all sorts of theories about government, economics, and ethics. I’m impressed less by their abstractions and more persuaded by the empirical results that follow their implementation.We’ve tried almost everything the libertarians recommend over...

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Jul 28, 2009

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TOQ Announces New Essay Contest

The Occidental Quarterly is pleased to announce its second annual essay contest on the topic of “Libertarianism and Racial Nationalism.” For more information, please click here.The winner of the first TOQ essay contest, on “Secession,” will be announced on August 1st, not July 1st as originally announced. We thank the entrants for their...

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