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In reply to Roderick Tracy Long. Fair enough. I hadn’t meant to imply that your synthesis ran afoul of the stricture, was just wondering if you accepted the stricture itself. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, by “what the synthesizer thinks is important” I don’t just mean “what the synthesizer thinks is *independently* important.” I mean what the synthesizer takes to be the most defensible way …

Kevin Carson makes a good criticism of the argument of this post. From a comment of his on Facebook: I definitely don’t consider ranchers to be a marginalized group. Federal land policy has always been disproportionately tailored to the interes…

In reply to Roderick Tracy Long. You’re right; I was saying this, at least via the second disjunct, as contrasted with the thought in parentheses: You seem to be saying that a synthesis has to preserve everything both thinkers thought, or at lea…

I found your discussion of dysfunctional anarchies and dysfunctional states interesting (around 57 minutes in). I think we need a special terminology to describe some of these situations. Imagine a case in which a State (or two) artificially creates a…

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