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A Video Offering Constructive Criticism of Gary Johnson

I feel that I’ve lost my objectivity when it comes to Gary Johnson, and so I’m only going to share this here (as opposed to social media). Incidentally, see if you can pass the Turing Test on me: How did I react around 1:05? BTW, the stuff about Muslim immigrants and what they did in […]

Brad Birzer Talks to Tom Woods About Mythology, Christianity, and Liberty

Sure I’ll go ahead and post this on a Sunday. Listen to two Catholics talk about Thor. (Joking aside, this is really good stuff.)

Scorecard of Gary Johnson’s Interview With Chris Wallace

[UPDATE below.] I’m upset with Gary Johnson because he is running as a Libertarian, so I hold him to a higher standard than other candidates. But I realize I’m possibly being too hard on the guy, so when David R. Henderson recently singled out Johnson’s August 28 interview with Chris Wallace as his best performance yet, […]

More Griping About Gary Johnson

Both in recognition of my (perhaps disproportionate) annoyance, and to avoid alienating potential future Murphy book buyers, I am really trying to contain my social media criticism of Gary Johnson. But let me gripe about him here. This recent Reason interview is astonishing. First of all look at this: NICK GILLESPIE: Earlier this week, you […]

The Sad State of Libertarian Discourse, and the Total Misunderstanding of Christianity

Part of why I am so disappointed in the Gary Johnson campaign is that his remarks on the wedding cake controversy lead Scott Sumner to say this: “Sorry, but bigots having their feelings hurt is not high on my list of problems…” I eventually realized that my critics on this thread truly had no idea […]

Gary Johnson: “I’m neither Hillary nor Trump, please vote for me. The fewer questions you ask, the more attractive I am.”

The more this guy talks, the more convinced I am that I made the right call. (I don’t vote, period–not for Ron Paul, not for anybody. But I mean, I have been trolling GJ on Facebook. And I regret nothing!) Look kids, Gary Johnson is going to get destroyed in the Electoral College in November. […]

Power to the People

My latest at FEE. I quote a socialist with approval! (Really.) Here’s the conclusion: The advocates of political intervention think that they ensure “consent of the governed” through the institution of democracy. But both history and theory show the naïveté of that belief. Suppose we had retained the medieval guild system, but with the tweak that […]

Callahan vs. Murphy: Only One Will Stand

I am happy to die on this hill: If you take my worldview to the extreme, then people really do have rights and if, for some crazy reason, most Earthlings refused to contribute to a project to stop a killer asteroid, then it would be immoral to take their money against their will. Gene Callahan […]