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One of the many things that bothers me about white supremacists is their revisionist history of the Civil War. "Ol' Bobby Lee" was a gentleman and wasn't "that bad" on slavery. Well, 160 years ago TODAY the retreating Confederate Army kidnapped over 1000 Black people in PA and MD and took them to Virginia for enslavement. Few know about this, but it was a war crime on top of the tragedy of Gettysburg.
https://owlcation.com/humanities/How-Confederates-Kidnapped-and-Enslaved-Blacks-at-Gettysburg
David A.Bell in the Chronicle, against the practice of academic departments adopting political positions and statements (and against the pressure on them to do so). Paywalled.
Lauren Hall Lilly remembers Steve Horwitz.
https://radicalmoderatesguide.substack.com/p/two-years-in-memoriam-steve-horwitz
I'm in Glasgow celebrating Adam Smith's 300th birthday. Inhonor of the occasion, one from the archives.
Honoring the Dishonorable Part 1: The Dishonorable Dead
https://www.niskanencenter.org/honoring-the-dishonorable-part-1-the-dishonorable-dead/
G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, 1819-1820, trans. Alan Brudner, University of Toronto Press, April 2023
https://utorontopress.com/9781487533540/lectures-on-the-philosophy-of-right-1819-and-x20131820/
When I saw the trailer for Asteroid City, I half-believed that it was one of those over-the-top internet jokes: "What if Wes Anderson made Armageddon"?
I like Anderson, but this movie looks like a lot of a lot of his schtick.
@jacobtlevy I've always been curious, in what sense is a pod cast, really? Like a shadow, a vote or a bronze?
Maybe like a spell?
[starts hearing Screamin' Jay Hawkins singing "I put a pod on you"]
... or maybe not
Alex speaks with Professor Jacob Levy about the concept of neutrality within the history of liberalism and how many historical thinkers have approached the subject within that tradition. Episode Notes: Michael Oakeshott on “adverbial rules” https://lawliberty.org/forum/michael-oakeshott-on-the-rule-of-law-and-the-liberal-order/ John Locke’s religious beliefs https://rb.gy/1yg43 Heresy of Americanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy) Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues Thesis https://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/bv_selection.pdf Ronald Dworkin “Liberalism” https://www.scribd.com/document/313373358/Ronald-Dworkin-Liberalism# Stephanie Slade, "Must Libertarians Care About More Than the State?" https://reason.com/2022/03/19/two-libertarianisms/ Alexis De Toqueville’s concerns about the rising liberal democratic order https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2018/08/09/de-tocqueville-and-the-french-exception John Stuart Mill “On Liberty” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty
Will Robinson
Liberal Currents
Stuart Elden
Torbjörn Björkman