Libertarians Can’t Save the Planet
Libertarians once claimed they had the answer to the environmental crisis. But the reality of climate change has simply exposed the futility of their creed.
7 Articles by: John Quiggin
John Quiggin, an Australian economist at the University of Queensland, blogs at Crooked Timber.
Leave John Locke in the Dustbin of History
Some scholars and writers are trying to rehabilitate John Locke. They shouldn’t — he was an apologist for slavery, not a champion of freedom.
Locke’s Folly
Jeffersonian Democrats made a serious attempt to implement Locke’s theories. Colonization and expropriation followed.
John Locke’s Road to Serfdom
John Locke advocated for a world based on expropriation, enslavement, and serfdom.
John Locke Against Freedom
John Locke’s classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It’s a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
Wall Street Isn’t Worth It
Cutting the banks down to size is good policy and good politics.