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Forgot to do this yesterday, sorry dudes. Self-promote away.

(The Rules: Post a short description of a post you’ve written, along with a link. Don’t link to your entire blog; make it specific).

It’s Sunday; time to self-promote. Shamelessly, if possible.

We had some fine weather for the Food Not Bombs weekly picnic today. How about y’all? What have you been up to in the past week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments.

Promote away.

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It’s Sunday Shameless Sunday today. Promote away.

I’m off to the park with vegan barbecue for the renewed Food Not Bombs Las Vegas. How about y’all? And what did you write about this week? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments.

You know the drill: Post a description and link to something you’ve written lately. Don’t just link to your whole blog; make it specific.

It’s Sunday again; that means it’s time for Shameless Self-Promotion.

So, what did you all write about this week? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments.

With Jill being away we’ve totally dropped the ball on the Shameless Self-Promotion Sundays.  Oops!  Sorry about that.

Go wild.

Everyone wish L. a happy birthday!

Then, since it’s Sunday, let me know what you all wrote about this week—leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments.

It’s Sunday again; that means it’s time for Shameless Self-Promotion.

So, what did you all write about this week? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments.

It’s Sunday again; that means it’s time for Shameless Self-Promotion. This Sunday, unlike most, I’ll be leading off, because here’s what I received in the mail a few days ago:

Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin

by Charles Johnson

To what extent should libertarians concern themselves with social commitments, practices, projects, or movements that seek social outcomes beyond, or other than, the standard libertarian commitment to expanding the scope of freedom from government coercion?

Clearly, a consistent and principled libertarian cannot support efforts or beliefs that are contrary to libertarian principles—such as efforts to engineer social outcomes by means of government intervention. But if coercive laws have been taken off the table, then what should libertarians say about other religious, philosophical, social, or cultural commitments that pursue their ends through noncoercive means, such as targeted moral agitation, mass education, artistic or literary propaganda, charity, mutual aid, public praise, ridicule, social ostracism, targeted boycotts, social investing, slowdowns and strikes in a particular shop, general strikes, or other forms of solidarity and coordinated action? Which social movements should they oppose,which should they support, and toward which should they counsel indifference? And how do we tell the difference?

In other words, should libertarianism be seen as a thin commitment, which can be happily joined to absolutely any set of values and projects, so long as it is peaceful, or is it better to treat it as one strand among others in a thick bundle of intertwined social commitments? Such disputes are often intimately connected with other disputes concerning the specifics of libertarian rights theory or class analysis and the mechanisms of social power. To grasp what’s at stake, it will be necessary to make the question more precise and to tease out the distinctions among some of the different possible relationships between libertarianism and thicker bundles of social, cultural, religious, or philosophical commitments, which might recommend integrating the two on some level or another.

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—Charles Johnson, Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin, in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 58.6 (July/August 2008), pp. 35–39.

You can read the whole thing (warning: PDF blob) at The Freeman’s online edition. Enjoy! FEE’s website doesn’t (yet) support online comments, but I’d be glad to hear what you think in the comments section over here.

One note about the article: it had to be shortened substantially both for reasons of space and considerations of the likely audience. I’ve talked with Sheldon, and I’ll be posting the longer version of the essay here at Rad Geek People’s Daily in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I would like to thank Sheldon Richman, for his encouragement, patience, and invaluable editing prowess; as well as Laura Breitenbeck and Roderick Long, for inspiration, discussion, and past collaboration, without which this article simply would not exist.

So, that’s me; what about you? What did you all write about this week? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments.