Comments on: My anti-blogroll http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/ Exposing the narrow monoculture of D.C. and the traditional mass media Mon, 06 May 2013 19:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ann http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-141 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:50:49 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-141 Will Wilkinson lives on the Green Line, as do Megan McArdle and Matt Yglesias. Reason Magazine is on the Red Line.

]]> By: Ben Kalafut http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-140 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:59:04 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-140 Quite fortunate that Cowen didn’t become the next Rothbard, as Rothbard was a well-read and highly intelligent crank with an ideological aversion to rigor.

There would have been no Anarchy, State, and Utopia without For A New Liberty, but there’s something wrong when an “economist”‘s main contribution is in philosophy, and then only as a gadfly approaching the subject without the modesty and thoroughness expected in the analytic tradition. Look to Nozick as an example of what Rothbard could have been had he not let ideology get in the way.

Or perhaps, had Rothbard been a Public Choice mainstreamer, he could have been Tyler Cowen, who, by the way, has done more in the last year to promote libertarian ideas than the Rothbardites have done in the last decade. I wouldn’t label realists “defectors.” We have dirty words in science–and modern economics is science–for people who know X to be true, yet act otherwise because they’d prefer X’s negation.

]]> By: Integer http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-139 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:30:57 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-139 It’s really a tragedy that someone with Tyler Cowen’s talents has gone soft. I don’t say statist…I say soft. When he was young everybody expected him to be the next Rothbard…with the implication that he would be more radical than Rothbard. But instead he has turned into the exponent of a kind of Epicurean no-nothing philosophy fleshed out with insights from Austrian economics. He knows perfectly well that the state is evil, but he has concluded that there can be no fighting against the inevitable…or as his unacnowleged master Epicurus put it “there is no appeal of mortals against the gods.” There have been many other defectors from the cause of libertarianism…but Cowen’s is particularly regretable.

]]> By: Ben Kalafut http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-138 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:41:48 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-138 Unlike the proceedings of an Auburn University “economics” conference, those ultra-statist, anti-liberty Orange Line bloggers like Will Wilkinson and Tyler Cowen actually have influence and outside readers.

We’re all in for it; bury a gun and a copy of Hans Herman Hoppe’s book in the backyard!

]]> By: Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » Double Evil! http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-137 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:36:56 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-137 [...] Orange Line? Well, no, but they all work for the regime, or are the regime, as Former Beltway Wonk points out. Here’s his list: American Prospect; Andrew Sullivan; BATF, CATO, Homeland Security, Federal [...]

]]> By: Kemp http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-136 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:33:29 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-136 How about we have DC secede and they can all sit around and govern themselves in all their pomp and arrogance and the rest of the country can be left alone?

]]> By: Mr. Roach http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-133 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:34:03 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-133 The Orange Line bloggers remind me of something I’ve noticed in D.C.: they’re all obsessed with popularity and gossip. It’s as if real government is like student government, filled with self-important people talking about each other constantly, and they’re all a bit exasperated that the rest of us “just don’t care.” Well I care, I care that a third of my paycheck goes to DC and these assholes want to take my guns and force local teachers to promote abortion or whatever, but other than that I’ve got little use for the government. It doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do–kill terrorists and round up border jumpers like in the days of Operation Wetback–and is too involved with things best left to personal choice and the private sector.

]]> By: RRE http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-119 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:40:03 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-119 I’ve lived on the red line and now I live on the green/yellow line. I guess I would fit in better with the mostly normal people.

]]> By: teageegeepea http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-115 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:48:47 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-115 It appears that Cato’s President Ed Crane still says he’d vote for Ron Paul.

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