Liberty versus libertarianism
Here’s an article by my chum Gene Callahan, someone very well versed in both the libertarian and the Oakeshott worlds. AristotleGene CallahanLiberalismLibertarianismMichael OakeshottOakeshottPoliticsrationalism
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Rationalism in Politics
In anticipation of a talk I’m giving later on in the week on Oakeshott’s so-called “dispositional conservatism”, here is a nice little piece by my chum Gene Callahan serving as a good introduction to RIP. The British philosopher and historian Michael Oakeshott is a curious figure in twentieth-century intellectual history. He is known mostly as…
Oakeshott on Rome and America
My chum Gene Callahan has just alerted me to the forthcoming publication of his book. The political system of the Roman Republic were based almost entirely on tradition, “the way of the ancestors,” rather than on a written constitution. While the founders of the American Republic looked to ancient Rome as a primary model for…
Think Markets
I’d like to give a plug to a blog that’s just been started by some members of the Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes at the Department of Economics, New York University – ThinkMarkets. With names like Mario Rizzo, Bill Butos, Gene Callahan and Roger Koppl involved (this is no slight on the other contributors…
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