The Hot Air Machine

  IN political science there is a concept known as “Conquest’s laws of politics.” It is named after Robert Conquest, a conservative British historian best known for his books on the Soviet Union . Similar to Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics,” Conquest’s laws define three principles of political action that can be considered reliably accurate. These three laws are: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. All these laws have interesting implications and can be looked at one by one. However, today the one law that I want us to focus on in particular is the second law, that, “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” It certainly sounds interesting and can have broad implications for political strategy. For libertarians in ...

            It was only two weeks ago when I last spoke about the Libertarian Party . My comments on the Party were entirely disapproving, believing the Party to be an embarrassment to libertarian values. From a strongly anarchist and quasi-agorist position, I viewed the LP as an illegitimate entity. In my, and others’ , view, an ideology opposed to politics and the State has no place participating in politics and the State. While this view of mine has not changed, the Libertarian Party itself has in fact changed in the past few days, and that’s why I wanted to sit down and write up this article.           To put it briefly for the outsider or whoever might be reading this, a few days ago the Libertarian Party hosted its national convention down in Reno, Nevada. The LNC brings together Libertarians across the country to discuss libertarianism (or rather, as is mostly the case in the LP, clas...

          YET another shooting has occurred and taken over the airways. 19 innocent children and two teachers have been killed in cold blood. This is by all means a tragedy, and even the people with the most depraved and politicized responses to this event acknowledge that deep down. One of the most disturbing details is how the oh-so-noble “Thin Blue Line” dilly-daddled for nearly an hour before an exasperated Border Patrol agent went in and ended it . However, just as with all tragedies, the Establishment media has not taken long to contort this one and use it to advance the abridgement of our property rights ( which justifies self-defense ). Social media is positively blowing up in response to this, and I feel obliged to make a statement regarding such a significant event.           What I feel most compelled to speak about is the root of this crime. While so many left-wing pundits and politicians are already...

          THE day that I first sat down to write this article I was scrolling Twitter and came across a tweet that read, “Why are there so many sexual deviants in Parliament?” I, of course, gave my two cents and went along my merry way. However, soon after, I paused and realized this was a very important question. To those willing to pay attention we can realize that history is littered with immoral, deviant elites, such as the Late Romans (see Miller 2004), the Habsburgs , and the numerous ones since the 20 th century who have operated sex trafficking rings that have involved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children. Why must it be that so frequently the people in charge end up being fiends?           I, therefore, want to take the time in this article to discuss, as I understand it, why our oligarchs tend towards such backwards behavior. What motivates them? What entices them? While some might have the theory t...

          RECENTLY , the Libertarian Party of the United States posted a tweet commenting on the ongoing controversy surrounding Roe v. Wade . What they said was, “Whether it is a choice about vaccines or reproduction, healthcare decisions belong between an individual and their doctor — not the government.” Attached to this tweet is an image of the mascots of the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian Parties (the donkey, elephant, and porcupine, respectively) titled “Bodily Autonomy”. With regards to this issue the Democrats are caricatured as believing “You own your uterus but not your immune system,” the Republicans as believing “You own your immune system but not your uterus,” and the Libertarians as believing “You own yourself.”           The Party did not receive many positive responses, however. The anarcho-capitalist Internet commentator LiquidZulu replied , “Do hitman-hiring decisions also belong solely ...

  I’VE been thinking of how to introduce this article for some time now. The concept at the center of this is a very unique one, one that only I have ventured to cover in detail, as far as I know. That being said, this means there is no clear precedent for me to take from in order to structure this text. However, I will try my best. To anyone even slightly cognizant of the outside world it is clear that the political climate has changed quite drastically over the last half-century. Once a welcomed and expected civic duty in which civilians hatched out the course of their country, politics is now met with apathy and despair. Although, that is more so the political process , if anything. The political system is met directly by the citizenry via the new art of activism/civil unrest that has caught the World by storm . Politics has certainly changed. Its rules, its ways, its etiquette, all these things have undergone a shift. Society has been impacted by these changes similarly a...