Me elsewhere.

Here's my first guest-post at Upturned Earth. Maybe this is interesting:

“This one time, I had a bad run-in with hardcore Austrian economics, and for a while it tainted my view of libertarianism. I’ve been coming around to the reality-based part of the movement, but I’m not nearly at the point where I would give myself the label. My biggest obstacle is that I haven’t been able to find a plausible comprehensive narrative of American history, including the bad parts, from a libertarian perspective. As a Southerner, I can’t help but be concerned about the Civil War. My basic take? The South ruined Federalism for everyone by positively indulging in evil, and there was no choice but to replace the original idea of the United States with something new. This is why I am skeptical of a direct return to the republic of the Founding Fathers; I am more partial to the idea of a second Founding, one that took place in 1865, as described by Mark Noll.”