von Mises – Gus diZerega

Turning the Tables: The pathologies and unrealized promise of libertarianism

Posted on June 30, 2015February 19, 2016 by Gus

As a scholar and former libertarian, I have been disappointed at libertarians’ general failure to engage in serious debate with their critics, but I have also been disappointed with most critics’ relatively simplistic attacks on libertarian ideology. I wrote this … Read more

Hayekian Insights on Capitalism and Civil Society

Posted on February 28, 2015April 20, 2015 by Gus

This is the first of a series of essays on capitalism. This, the first, is a very theoretical discussion, one relatively light on examples. However those that follow will have examples aplenty. But the theoretical framework is needed to make … Read more

Exploring economic freedom as if freedom and people actually mattered

Posted on July 20, 2013August 26, 2013 by Gus

Two quotations, juxtaposed, summarize the errors into which modern American defenses of ‘free markets’ and capitalism have entered. In the process these errors led to abandoning any real meaning for liberty or human well-being. Right wing libertarians in particular sincerely … Read more

The Pagan community neeeds to repudiate libertarianism as it currently exists

Posted on April 5, 2013April 10, 2013 by Gus

After some frustrating encounters with Pagans who called themselves libertarians I decided to write why Pagans once had a libertarian connection and why there really is no longer any reason to do so until libertarians do a thorough house cleansing … Read more

Cities and the incoherence of libertarian theory and practice

Posted on February 10, 2013February 11, 2013 by Gus

One of the top right-wing illusions about reality (there are so many) is that high taxes and regulations are always bad for businesses, and reducing both will attract them. It comes from their apparent incapacity to think in contexts: what … Read more