Unqualified Offerings

Down below you’re tossing some figures around and going back and forth about an old Pew poll counting “Enterprisers,” and trying to fit that square peg of a category into the round hole of “Libertarian.” Two more recent polls, discussed last month on Q and O, put the percentage of “libertarians” at between 9 and [...]

This is weak, I know. I have some shit to say that’s half-formed and my younger daughter has a bad cold. Jim’s going to extend my reign by one day so that I can insult him and his faithful readers by implying that anarchism is teh crazy. In the meantime…
1. Rally Round Jah Throne/Bad Brains
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(Post by Neel Krishnaswami, one of Jim’s libertarian minions of DOOM!)
The past few days have seen a big flurry of discussion here about whether or not a libertarian-liberal rapprochment is useful/desirable/possible/sensible. It’s mostly focused on the immediate politics of such a thing, so I figured I’d talk a little about the far-off future. (In the [...]

(posted by Jennifer)
Here’s a BBC photo essay about an Egyptian woman named Magda Amer, who is a Muslim preacher. Very interesting little piece—Magda’s definitely not the poor oppressed fundamentalist woman you read about in places like Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, and I’m sure she’d be resentful of any Western woman who dared to feel sorry [...]