Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

(Unsent) Dear Mr. Reese: You write that “A larger safety problem is the greedy owners’ cutting back on the size of the crews.” Are you saying that the “greedy owners” enjoy it when their ships sink or blow up because of the shortage of their crew? Do greedy farmers also have a safety problem when [...]

(Unsent) Dear Mr. Taki, I was amused to read the phrase “Well, the days of laissez-faire are over, otherwise I would suggest doing away with welfare altogether.” Now I don’t know whether or not you approve of laissez-faire, but one thing is certain. The days of laissez-faire are indeed over if you and other members [...]

Tom Ambrose writes in his WorldNetDaily critique of Raimondo’s article that “[t]he inescapable conclusion one must then come to is that it was only the harsh probability of total extinction that finally brought the Japanese to their senses. Keeping the emperor sealed the deal, but by no means made surrender acceptable all on its own.” [...]

This is a bitter letter which fortunately was never sent. Lew, I’ve wondered often why Americans, including many libertarians, decry the casualties of wars, e.g., in Iraq. Did not the soldiers sign up voluntarily? Are they not aware that for money they must kill and run a higher-than-normal risk of dying from violence? Or do [...]

Dear Mr. Rockwell, I didn’t wish to bother you again, but have you seen Manhattan at Christmastime? What a glorious sight! People from all over the world doing their last minute shopping, crowds everywhere, store managers yelling “half-price!” through megaphones, the hustle and bustle; this marvelous scene always inspires me. Many have only a dim [...]

And what a good libertarian ideology must prevent him from having: capitalist profits and socialized losses.

Says Nietzsche, correctly. And adds: “How is it that the Russians have songs?” That’s because the Russians aren’t evil. Slaves, sure. Evil, no. See also: Economic Freedom of the World.

Such a demand is clearly a form of blackmail, because it is never really addressed to those who do not love Ruritania and will evil to it but merely to those who disagree with the demander on how best to promote Ruritania’s welfare; i.e., it is not about different ends but about different means to [...]

On the 4th of July Americans commemorate the events that occurred between 1775 and 1783, known together as the Revolutionary War. Yet what is being celebrated? Not, obviously, the resistance to Great Britain’s dominion, for all that is ancient history. For most people, I think it’s clear, it is the glory of the “Republic.” America! [...]

Happy independence/secession day to you and yours. Please comment “aye” if you would like the state you live in to secede from the United States.

William Kristol objects to the now famous MoveOn.org ad featuring a mother and her 1-year old son: Now he argues that “Unless we enter a world without enemies and without war, we will need young men and women willing to risk their lives for our nation. And we’re not entering any such world.” Thanks to [...]

Sandefur writes: “The child has a right not to be, so to speak, falsely imprisoned in a mental asylum due to the parents’ superstitions — and the state has the legitimate authority to defend that right, again, within certain (often vague) boundaries set by a parent’s right to direct the upbringing of a child.” That [...]

Lew Rockwell asks, “why are the frightening calls for energy autarky — that is, destruction of part of the division of labor — by McCain and the other neocons — never even controversial?” I think it’s because the government can do anything to us. The only thing that limits the state these days is public [...]

Why it won’t work, proves Rothbard: Another alternative right-wing strategy is that commonly pursued by many libertarian or conservative think tanks: that of quiet persuasion, not in the groves of academe, but in Washington, D.C., in the corridors of power. This has been called the “Fabian” strategy, with think tanks issuing reports calling for a [...]

Consider the following standard justification of libertarianism: liberty makes it possible for people to pursue their diverse goals and conceptions of the good and virtues and flourishing and self-perfection and, finally, happiness in whatever way they see fit without infringing on one another. (We can define happiness here not as satisfaction of desires, whatever they [...]

On the Glen Beck’s CNN show Horowitz said: “There are plenty of, unfortunately, libertarian websites which are indistinguishable from the anti-American lefties: lewrockwell.com and others like that. They are totally in bed with Islamo-fascists and have turned against this country.” What an asshole! It goes to show: once a communist, always a communist; or, to [...]

… is that it has not conquered Canada, says Michael Medved. Also, check out his reference to the “insurgent” Ron Paul campaign. Oh year, and the “immortal toast,” “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!” is pretty much the same toast [...]

Says Jonathan Bostwick. In other words, get the government out of making, enforcing, and interpreting laws prohibiting murder. If market anarchy can work in providing protection against murderers, arbitration over murder cases, etc. and more efficiently, then surely, it can deliver every other service now supplied by the state. Hmm… the major premise seems fine. [...]

There is “an anti-interventionist wing of the GOP“? When I asked Lew: “The Republicans have spent the last 6 years building an empire and a police state at a much increased rate; why would they nominate someone who pledges to dismantle both?,” he replied with “only if it is a revolutionary moment.” Well, is it [...]

“America’s Police Brutality Pandemic” by Paul Craig Roberts.