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Racial, Sexual, etc., Discrimination Subject: reparations Dear Walter, I am so impressed by your essays on reparations that I have passed them on to a few of my more influential friends and opinion makers (2002 essay, 2007 essay, 2019 Epoch Times review).  In my attempts to provoke interest in reading them, I have presented the following brief summary of your beliefs as an enticement: ⦁ Reparation benefits should be strictly based on reasonably proven ancestry of slavery. ⦁ Reparation liability should be strictly based on reasonably proven ancestry of slaveholding. ⦁ Total reparatio...

From: Marc J. Victor Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 4:41 PM To: Walter Block <wblock@loyno.edu> Subject: Question Hi Walter. I was talking to a doctor friend of mine today who comes from Canada.  He is one of the people reviewing my book.  His position is that the libertarian/3LP position has nothing to offer to Canadians (and possibly Australians/New Zealanders/ Europeans).  He thinks the average Canadian enjoys a social welfare state that provides more freedom and a better standard of living for Canadians than we can offer them. He claims Canadians enjoy good healthcare, schools...

Saint Ron Paul and the LP Subject: Fwd: Platform ver0.2 RELEASE G’day Walter, I would love to get your feedback on this draft proposal platform for a new Australian libertarian party. It’s built off the old Workers Party platform. In essence: education & principled radical abolitionism is the name of the game. The Ron Paul approach in short. Please feel free to tear it and even the idea in general to shreds. What can be improved? Removed? Added? Naturally, no worries if too busy etc.! End goal: make sure it never becomes what the US Libertarian Party is like.

DAVID WAHLBERG Using stem cells from monkeys with a condition like Parkinson’s disease, UW-Madison researchers grew brain cells that produce a chemical depleted by the disease. When they injected the cells into the monkeys’ brains, the animals’ Parkinson’s-like rigid movements were replaced by more fluid walking and climbing. LOGAN WROGE, STATE JOURNAL The results are promising enough that the researchers hope to begin work on applications for human patients soon, said UW–Madison neuroscientist Su-Chun Zhang, whose Waisman Center lab grew the b...

What Is The Proper Libertarian View on Threats? Dear Michael: It all depends upon whether or not that gun pointing constitutes a threat. If your “gun” is an armor piercing bazooka, capable of plowing through that wall, and all you need is for that “gun” to drop, or you sneeze on it in just the right way to launch the missile, then, yes, it should be banned and you’d be a criminal. On what constitutes a threat, see this: Block, Walter E. and William Barnett II. 2008. “Continuums” Journal Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics, Vol. 1, pp. 151-166, June; http://www2.units.it/~etica...