New at Reason

Nick Gillespie | February 1, 2008

Now playing at reason.tv: Producer-director James Tusty talks about his gripping new documentary about Estonia's fight for freedom, The Singing Revolution. Bonus videos include clips and Tusty's January 23 presentation at reason's DC headquarters, and former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar's presentation at Reason in Amsterdam.

Go here for video.

Comments

The Wine Commonsewer|2.1.08 @ 6:15PM|#

Nice Intro Matt. Well done.

|2.1.08 @ 6:39PM|#

Apparently Estonians not only fought for their freedom they even continue defend it:

http://blog.mises.org/archives/007688.asp (warning: paleo link)

javier|2.1.08 @ 6:51PM|#

affenkopf,

I saw that a week or so ago whenever it was posted. Makes me want to start applying for jobs in estonia.

afruff|2.1.08 @ 8:59PM|#

affenkopf,

You deride paleos, while you live in a state of denial regarding the true nature of government.

By this I mean, you follow the watered down BS from places like Cato and Reason rather than the real stuff like Rothbard and Mises.

Eesti Boy|2.1.08 @ 10:26PM|#

Love it.

Tänan väga

Wikipedia Fanatic|2.1.08 @ 10:57PM|#

". . watered down BS from places like Cato and Reason . ."

[citation needed]

Eesti Boy|2.1.08 @ 10:59PM|#

Central Scrutinizer:

This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to *The Death Penalty* (or affect your parents' credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things...and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!

Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE).

http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Joe_s_Garage/01.html

http://www.youtube.com/v/3GBXftcDG_c

afruff|2.2.08 @ 2:30AM|#

wikipedia fanatic,

Minarchism vs. anarcho-capitalism.

Vital|2.2.08 @ 11:45AM|#

.tv Bad domain zone

|2.2.08 @ 11:46AM|#

afruff,

1) the paleo warning was a joke, I think the whole paleo/cosmo debate is just stupid 2) I've read Mises, he was a minarchist not an anarcho-capitalist.

Sje|2.2.08 @ 3:11PM|#

Affenkopf,
Afruff,

Mises was not a paleoconservative by any stretch of the imagination. The association of his name with paleo-Rothbardo-Alabaman is unfortunate because it distracts from the fact that Mises was a classical liberal in the Central European tradition who wrote surprisingly readable treatises on everything from economics and epistemology to sociology and political theory and history. He sometimes oversold his arguments, and occasionally he was flat-out wrong. But Liberalism and Socialism and Bureaucracy and even (what the hell) Human Action deserve to be read.

Liberalism especially has some extremely interesting and deeply cosmopolitan arguments about nationalism that analyze the political economy behind the apparently ceaseless tribal warfare that occupied Mises' home continent for most of his life. It is the closest thing I have seen to a bona fide classical liberal theory of international relations. Go read it on the Liberty Fund web site.

Sje|2.2.08 @ 3:15PM|#

Oh, and by the way, anarchist/minarchist has nothing to do with anything. Mises was, indeed, no anarchist. David Friedman is. There seems to be a tendency for anarchists to prefer a-priori reasoning, but the two are not necessarily correlated, nor is a-priorism necessarily correlated with homophobia or the ability to make heads or tails of anything written by Hoppe.

|2.2.08 @ 5:14PM|#

I've read Mises, he was a minarchist not an anarcho-capitalist.

Hey, now! Them's slap-fightin' words.

afruff|2.2.08 @ 11:37PM|#

Mises was an anarchist. He just didn't know it at the time ;)

|2.3.08 @ 2:05AM|#

joe,
defend the state.
seriously,
Jamie Kelly