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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
Thirteen Observations on Super Tuesday 2020
On Mar. 3, 2020, there were 15 contests in the nomination process for President of the United States. Primary elections took place in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
Book Review: Why Cities Lose
Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide is a book about political polarization between urban and rural areas by Jonathan A. Rodden, professor of…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Compulsory Voting
Compulsory voting is a policy that requires eligible citizens to register and vote in elections. The practice has roots in the democracy of ancient Athens, where the social norm…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
Against Compulsory Delusion
On November 29, 2019, Quillette published an essay by Chang Che titled “The Case for Compulsory Voting” in which he argues that the right to vote is under attack and that making…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
Chile's Backslide to Marxist Tyranny
By Benjamin Welton Chile, which many in the Dissident Right uphold as one of the world's few conservative and libertarian success stories, has descended once again into social…
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zerothposition (55)in #philosophy • 5 years ago
The Not-So-Current Year: 2019 In Review
Though the specific demarcation of the passage from one year into another is a rather arbitrary social construct, it does provide a useful annual period for self-examination and…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
The Next Hero of the Soviet Union
On December 18, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress by votes of 230–197–1…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
An Analysis of Cancel Culture
In several previous Zeroth Position articles, I have argued that social media platforms, payment processors, and other technology companies should be prevented from denying…
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zerothposition (55)in #economics • 5 years ago
The Economic Fallacies of Black Friday: 2019 Edition
Today, shoppers across America will participate in the largest shopping day of the year: Black Friday. The National Retail Federation is estimating that 165.3 million customers…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
Book Review: The Problem of Democracy
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality is a dual biography of John Adams (1735–1826) and John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) (hereafter JQA, as…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
Book Review: Nemesis
Nemesis: The Jouvenelian Versus the Liberal Model of Human Orders is a book about Bertrand de Jouvenel's model of political power and its further development by C.A. Bond. The…
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zerothposition (55)in #culture • 5 years ago
Gun Control Horrorism
In recent weeks, there have been several high-profile mass shootings in the United States. In Gilroy, Calif., on July 28, 2019, a man killed four and wounded 13 at the Gilroy…
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zerothposition (55)in #history • 5 years ago
Book Review: The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates is a book about the formation of the United States government and the arguments against its foundational…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 5 years ago
The Ordnungszelle Option
To Anglo-American ears, any German phrase can sound somewhat troubling, given the association between the German language and Nazism in the political arena. As such…
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zerothposition (55)in #libertarian • 5 years ago
A Libertarian Reactionary View of Tariffs, Part I
One of the most important aspects of governance is trade policy, for it is part of both domestic and foreign policy. Without a proper understanding of the tools available to a…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 6 years ago
Corporate Censorship Is the Product of Power
On June 6, National Review published an article by David French titled “Social-Media Censorship Is the Product of Culture and Commerce” in which he argues that corporate…
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zerothposition (55)in #politics • 6 years ago
Venezuela: To Solve a Tinderbox
By Benjamin Welton “The desire for utopia is, arguably, as urgent and as necessary as the desire for history.” –Eugene Thacker[1] The problem with this desire, of course…
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zerothposition (55)in #libertarian • 6 years ago
Civil Rights Are Not the Answer to Corporate Censorship
On May 3, Human Events published an article by Will Chamberlain titled “Platform Access is a Civil Right”. In it, he compares the de-platforming of political dissidents…
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zerothposition (55)in #notredame • 6 years ago
Thoughts During the Burning of Notre Dame
On April 15, I came in from mowing the lawn and turned on the news to find that a fire had broken out at one of the great monuments of the Western world. Cathédrale Basilique…
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zerothposition (55)in #music • 6 years ago
Song Lyrics: If You Cannot Solve A Problem
To the tune of “She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain”. An April Fools song. Chorus: If you cannot solve a problem, make it worse If you cannot solve a problem, make it…
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