Monday Lazy Linking
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 14 years ago, in 2010, on the World Wide Web.
A Tribute to Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958) Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) (2010-10-01).
Rocker was awful on economics, but his focus was not on that. He wrote about nationalism and culture, and here Rocker is fantastic. “States create no culture; indeed, they are often destroyed by higher forms of culture.”
(Linked Friday 2010-10-01.)How to Record the Cops. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-20).
This summer the issue of recording on-duty police officers has received a great deal of media attention. Camera-wielding citizens were arrested in Maryland, Illinois, and Massachusetts under interpretations of state wiretapping laws, while others were arrested in New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Florida, and elsewhere based on vaguer charges related to…
(Linked Saturday 2010-10-02.)Blegging – The Oxford School of Ungovernment. Jock, Anarchoblogs in English (2010-10-03).
Last month saw the inauguration of the "Blavatnik School of Government" at Oxford University, described as "Europe's first major school of government". How on earth, one wonders, could we have done without all these centuries. And what does it say about our current crop of leaders here in the UK…
(Linked Sunday 2010-10-03.)Can we really blame Republicans for the wars? Charles Davis, Anarchoblogs in English (2010-10-03).
Michael Moore has a list of five things he says Democrats should do to avoid a disaster at the polls in November. His first recommendation? That the Democratic Party run ads reminding voters "Who the Hell Put Us in the Misery We're In": People need to be reminded over and over that…
(Linked Sunday 2010-10-03.)
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On that Mises piece: bleh. These blanket dismissals of any non-Austrian economic theory are pretty aggravating.
Dyne,
I agree with you about that, but it’s a piece written for an audience of Austrian economists, so that’s about what I expected. I’m more interested in the appreciation that Riggenbach shows for Rocker’s central concerns about culture and state power, than I am for the unkind words he has to say about Rocker’s economics.
In general I’m glad to see people demonstrating a willingness to say, Even if I don’t disagree with X about economics (in the same way). Given how that particular debate has usually gone (from more than one side), that strikes me as a sign of engagement, and progress.