Heaton had on the Political Orphanage about real world "no man's lands" and the example of the Walled City of Kowloon seems to be the anarchic volunteerism ideal that libertarians are striving for, and I am against the rats addicted to opium of the wet dream of ancaps everywhere. Most libertarians will of course say that the real world experiment of Kowloon isn't real anarchy much like Marxists who say all examples of communism wasn't really communism not because it was not aligned with the beliefs but because the actual implementation didn't have the desired results. Both AnCaps and Communists need to acknowledge that their ideology has significant flaws and what are the mitigation and improvements for those flaws.
I think you are a little too hard on the Reason libertarians- as a regular roundtable listener, the primary complaint about the firings is that it isn't going to stick because the next guy can just put it all back, and that Trump squandered the opportunity to make real lasting reform
I appreciate you having Padgett on. It's always interesting to hear him speak. Thank you for asking about the promised cabinet position - if we Hear the Unheard, to mangle the quote, the silence around his wife's never materialized 'imminent' elevation to the position is pretty loud. The former Libertarian Party nominated presidential candidate with education experience who ran on abolishing the DoE not being available/acceptable as a pick for the cabinet when they were explicitly looking for someone to rein in the DoE is also pretty glaring.
Heaton had on the Political Orphanage about real world "no man's lands" and the example of the Walled City of Kowloon seems to be the anarchic volunteerism ideal that libertarians are striving for, and I am against the rats addicted to opium of the wet dream of ancaps everywhere. Most libertarians will of course say that the real world experiment of Kowloon isn't real anarchy much like Marxists who say all examples of communism wasn't really communism not because it was not aligned with the beliefs but because the actual implementation didn't have the desired results. Both AnCaps and Communists need to acknowledge that their ideology has significant flaws and what are the mitigation and improvements for those flaws.
I think you are a little too hard on the Reason libertarians- as a regular roundtable listener, the primary complaint about the firings is that it isn't going to stick because the next guy can just put it all back, and that Trump squandered the opportunity to make real lasting reform
I appreciate you having Padgett on. It's always interesting to hear him speak. Thank you for asking about the promised cabinet position - if we Hear the Unheard, to mangle the quote, the silence around his wife's never materialized 'imminent' elevation to the position is pretty loud. The former Libertarian Party nominated presidential candidate with education experience who ran on abolishing the DoE not being available/acceptable as a pick for the cabinet when they were explicitly looking for someone to rein in the DoE is also pretty glaring.