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My Final Post on Steemit

In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been posting on Steemit. I kind of got bored with this platform. Plus, my ideas have changed significantly since I starte...

Progress & Conservation: A Radical Centrist Manifesto

The Essence of Conservatism & of Progressivism The essence of conservatism is its recognition of the importance of stability, security, and social order. It vie...

"Constructive Conservatism" & "Property-owning Democracy"

This is an excellent work. A series of 4 short articles written by Noel Skelton in 1923/1924. This shows a living conservatism that evolved with the times, maki...

Towards A Comprehensive Business Cycle Theory

This post is by no means going to be comprehensive. I am certainly not up to the task of developing a comprehensive theory of the business cycle. That task must...

Neoliberalisms: From 1938 to the 21st Century

The Changing Face of Liberalism - With the 20th century, a new liberalism was becoming prominent. Classical liberals had held that the proper role of government...

Social Democracy & Liberal Democracy

The New Democrats - We are starting to see social democrats grow in popularity. Individuals like Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Il...

Thomas Paine's Political & Economic Vision

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, in my estimation, are the most interesting of the American Founding Fathers. In a previous post, I discussed Thomas Jefferson...

Thomas Jefferson's Political and Economic Vision

Thomas Jefferson’s Ward Republic Model - Thomas Jefferson did not see the American system as the best possible system. In his original draft of The Declaration ...

Libertarian Social Democracy & Geo-Distributism

What if neoliberalism and socialism are both flawed ideologies? The neoliberal critique of marxism is pretty solid. Hayek and Mises did a good job of demonstrat...

Atlas Shirked Social Responsibility

>>>Ayn Rand sucked at life. Her books were garbage and no one loved her, not even Rothbard. Also, "If there's one thing that will not be tolerated here, it's im...

The Modern American Right

>"...Plato's political programme, far from being morally superior to totalitarianism, is fundamentally identical with it."—Karl Popper (The Open Society & Its E...

On the Reformation of Law and Law-Enforcement

On Law Libertarian social democracy, as I conceive it, is neo-republican. Republicanism defines liberty as the absence of domination. This differs from the defi...

LGBT Rights Are Human Rights!

Trans rights are human rights! Immigrant rights are human rights! Gay rights are human rights! Women’s rights are human rights! Black lives are human lives! Thi...

The Geo-Distributist & Neo-Republican Nature of Libertarian Social Democracy

What distinguishes my model of libertarian social democracy from conventional social democracy is that it is neither capitalist nor socialist but geo-distributi...

The Intersection of Prison Abolition, Social Democracy, and Libertarianism

If you are libertarian, you have to be a prison abolitionist. The prison system is modern day slavery, the antithesis of liberty. 1 out of every 110 adults in A...

Utilitarian Natural Law Theory: Consequentialist Deontological Virtue Ethics

Utilitarianism seems self-evidently true. You can disagree with the particulars, but the essence is correct—happiness and pleasure are good, while suffering and...

Conservatism vs. Progressivism: Towards A Synthesis

>[note: In this essay, I use the term “progressive” in a broad sense, indicating political ideologies that are oriented towards rapid social change and that bel...

Against Anti-Abortionism

The Historical Basis of Anti-Abortionist Sentiment If we put aside all metaphysical and religious dogma and rely only on facts, or objective truths, then it is ...

Nostalgia For Traditional Conservatism

I despise American “conservatism” today, because it is not really conservatism. It is merely nationalist rightism. Historically, conservatism meant something—it...

Is Social Democracy Socialism?

Socialism proper refers to the advocacy of some sort of collective, social, or public ownership of industry/enterprise and, usually, of land as well. We find ma...