Stephen Cox on Libertarian Literature and Prisons as Failed Planned Societies
Stephen Cox sat down with Reason.tv to talk about libertarian literature and why prisons are the best example of a failure in planning societies.
Cox is a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, as well as the editor-in-chief of Liberty magazine, which can be read at libertyunbound.com . He is also the author of The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America and The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison.
Topics include: Isabel Paterson; American Prisons; Liberty magazine in detail; and promoting individual freedom.
Shot by Zach Weissmuller and Paul Feine; Edited by Paul Detrick.
Approximately 9:30 minutes.
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Central planning leads rear end collisions and forced buttseks? I just knew it!
The prison book looks interesting. Cox is a terrific writer.
It's also interesting to see Liberty mentioned in Reason. Well, Reason.tv.
God of the Machine is kind of awkward as a defense of the free market. Patterson is obviously very well-read and intelligent, but she presents this vision of history as an extended mechanical engineering metaphor that doesn't clearly communicate freedom as preferable to top down social design.
That's because it's only clear to people who already prefer freedom.
Great post,I will read your post time to time.thank you!
I think they must be sad
Freedom in prison!hah, good!
TARO in prison, he said he need freedom...
ThaNk U
freedom not easy to said , people need pay for life in some area