The Hot Air Machine

This article is dedicated to a dear friend of mine. Hope this teaches you something, ya dope.   I AM a libertarian, or – more precisely – an anarcho-capitalist with Rothbardian and Hoppean undertones . While I at first identified as some form of a conservative, I now realize I wasn’t an orthodox conservative, and I began to realize this even before I formally converted to libertarianism when I read Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind and learned about Edmund Burke (the father of conservatism) and couldn’t agree with some fundamentals of conservatism. However, belonging to such a fringe ideology as anarcho-capitalism - part of the broader fringe ideology of anarchism - life is sort of difficult. People like capitalism, people like less government, but they can’t wrap their minds around the supremacy of the former and the dissolution of the latter. My social circle happens to consist of many of those people, and they tend to identify as minarchists (see Block 2011) or as t...

I N my last article on the practice of abortion, I mentioned a few times within it that I believed there was some elitist/Establishment role behind the proliferation of this phenomenon. I also stated that, in the near future, I would be interested in covering that. Well, we are in the near future, and I am interested in covering that today. I will be leading you through history and nations, showing you how the abortion phenemonon originated, and what its continued practice fuels. Whenever I do deep dives like this, sometimes I like to go upstream, then lead my readers back downstream. I like this method of doing things because it provides a hook, as the reader will watch the development of a phenomenon over time and watch as unsuspected connections are made. It is just nice doing it this way. So, in my research, I carefully pieced various thinkers and groups together, and went as far upstream this cultural and ideological river as I could. I am at the headwaters now, let me bring ...

IN  today’s culture, not just in America but also most of the West, abortion is a hot-button issue. For nearly a half-century now a war has been unfolding between the pro-life and pro-choice camps. I can mention the various Establishment assets being operated on either side, but that is not the focus of today’s article. Instead, abortion plain and simple is my focus. What I want to focus on is pretty much the primary thought on either side: “How do we end this conflict?” How do we end the question over the act of abortion, over the nature of human life and the infant. Can this theater of the culture war be resolved, and in whose favor can it end in? The fact of the matter is, like so many other sociopolitical issues such as immigration or homosexuality, the answer is already settled by clear, unadulterated   data. This data, however, is oppressed by the ideological vanguard in academia and blocked by the mainstream media. What I am going to lay out in the course of this ar...