A Couple of New(ishish) Posts at Entitled To An Opinion

“Americans on Hard Work vs. Good Luck” and “On OWS” (Occupy Wall…yea you got it).

My Article at In Mala Fide on Slavery, Redefined

Can be read here. Takeaway line: …this craze for gauging humanity’s collective impact on issue X in terms of footprints is an abuse of metaphor that has run its course. Between carbon footprints, water footprints, and now slavery footprints, it’s a wonder our crusader class hasn’t cut off its feet to spite its guilty conscience.

My Article at In Mala Fide on Libertarianism Running Aground on the Shores of Lake Alliance

Can be read here. Intro: Whatever momentum libertarianism built up during the Bush pt. 2 years has by now been declared DOA – or just plain dead, because it never in fact arrived. As it turned out, the Left that so many of my libertarian brethren had been trying to woo, due to their shared […]

A Couple of New(ish) Posts at Entitled To An Opinion

“Neoliberal Beliefs and Public Attitudes,” a critique of Chris Dillow on, well, that, and “So Much for Efficient Scandinavian Governance,” which is more a throwaway remark than anything substantial.

Writing Submission Fail

UPDATE: Nevermind. It’s been added at In Mala Fide. I submitted the following piece to another website which will for now go unnamed, but it hasn’t been posted thus far. I’ve been posted at the site before, and quickly, so I don’t think it’s the technical quality of the writing that is holding the piece […]

My Article at Takimag, "No Justice, No Piece of the Pie"

The title was changed by the editor. It originally read “No Justice, No Peace (For the Rest of Us).” I confess the change is probably an improvement, as parentheses in a title look sort of clunky. It can be read here.

My Article at In Mala Fide on Egalitarianism Run Amok

Can be read here. Intro: Recently, Yahoo! News alerted me to a UC Berkeley report relaying the dreaded fact that the much vaunted “digital democracy” yearned for by many a progressive has not yet come to pass. Bill Clinton’s hoped-for crossing of the digital divide has been a failure; or at least it has failed […]

My Newest Interview for Critical Review

It’s with Mark Pennington of the University of London. We discuss the errors of deliberative democratic theory, at least as elaborated by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. For details read this.

My Article at In Mala Fide on Paul Piccone

Can be read here. Intro: How does a Marxist go from student radical and scholar to contrarian gadfly sharing more in common with “beautiful losers” (paleo-conservative icon Sam Francis’ quasi-flattering moniker for he and his ilk) of the American right than his own lefty peers? If you’re Paul Piccone, the late founder and editor of […]

My Newest Audio Interview for Critical Review

This time with Chris Wisniewski, independent scholar and contributor to Reverse Shot online film journal. Again, instead of repeating myself, see this.