Political Order and Political Decay

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My review of Fukuyama is online at The American Conservative.


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  1. Samson Corwell1:16 AM

    Man, reading that article gave me déjà vu. You used some of the exact same passages from your blog posts on Fukuyama made within the last 6 months (that seems like a long time to write an article).

    Another thing: what is up with the concentration of ancaps on TAC? The connection between them, FEE, and Mises seems to confirm my growing suspicions that ancapism is more like a certain kind of "frosting" that people with parochialist conservative tendencies, particularly paleos, tend to have. Commonalities like the use of certain phrases (i.e., "welfare-warfare state", "statism", etc.) and certain theories (i.e., certain things regarding norms, culture, and so forth) reinforce this.

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    1. gcallah2:23 PM

      I use the blog as my scratchpad in writing a review.

      Time: There were three months between my finishing and publication.
      McCarthy was once an ancap, and I think some of his connections from those days followed him to TAC.

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    2. Samson Corwell3:47 PM

      Oi. It seems to me like anarcho-capitalism is just one of those niches that is just particular to conservatism, like Posse Comitatus.

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