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October 4 marked one year since I launched Against the Left. 27 articles and 200 subscribers later, I couldn’t be more proud of what I’ve accomplished with this newsletter.
To commemorate this anniversary, I want to highlight some of my personal favorite pieces. 🧵
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Patrick Carroll retweeted
In a dearth of libertarian writers, Patrick consistently produces some of the best and clearest articles that defend liberty.
October 4 marked one year since I launched Against the Left. 27 articles and 200 subscribers later, I couldn’t be more proud of what I’ve accomplished with this newsletter.
To commemorate this anniversary, I want to highlight some of my personal favorite pieces. 🧵
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5: Why Freedom and Democracy are Incompatible. I’ve always wanted to explain the an-cap objection to democracy, and I feel I did a good job of it in this piece.
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The other way you can help is by sharing my pieces, either on social media or with specific friends and colleagues who might be interested. I keep the paywall off because I want these essays to spread widely, and other people sharing my articles is the best way that can happen.
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All that to say, thanks for an amazing year. I have no shortage of ideas for future articles so, as always, stay tuned.
againsttheleft.substack.com/
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October 4 marked one year since I launched Against the Left. 27 articles and 200 subscribers later, I couldn’t be more proud of what I’ve accomplished with this newsletter.
To commemorate this anniversary, I want to highlight some of my personal favorite pieces. 🧵
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3: Market Failure: The Left’s Most Powerful Weapon. My single biggest pet peeve with the liberty movement is how little attention it gives to this subject. I try to clarify the debate and explain my perspective.
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2: The Case for Privatizing Everything. We can’t make the case for free markets if we don’t understand how they work. In this piece I spell out the nuts and bolts of Austrian economic theory to the best of my ability, drawing on Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State.
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1: Toward an Effective Strategy for Libertarianism. My founding essay, emphasizing the key strategic insight I think the liberty movement needs to hear, namely, that we need to push back more directly and more substantively against our intellectual opponents.
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Patrick Carroll retweeted
Hint, it’s not brown people.
It’s:
>Height limits
>Restrictive zoning
>Density caps
>Parking mandates
>Minimum lot sizes
>Setback requirements
>Permitting delays
>Environmental reviews
>Historic-preservation rules
>Prevailing-wage mandates
>Development fees
>Approval appeals and lawsuits
In other words, the bureaucratic nightmare that voters ordered.
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Many people get a nasty shock when their property's assessed value—and thus their property tax—dramatically increases. But what if there was a way to prevent this?
California's Proposition 13 seems to be one such solution.
I discuss in a new piece for @thedailyeconomy ⤵️
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Can Other States Learn From California’s Property Tax Experiment?
thedailyeconomy.org/article/…
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