J. C. Lester

This research tends to be framed by the following triple methodology: philosophically explaining and defending libertarianism* (an unpopular and misunderstood ideology); doing this using critical rationalism (an unpopular and misunderstood epistemology); and having an abstract—non-propertarian and non-normative—theory of libertarian liberty (an unpopular and misunderstood eleutherology). “Here I stand; I can do no other. [Philosophy] help me.”

Mainstream private-property libertarianism—in its various forms—is severely philosophically confused. It conflates conceptions or theories of rights, consequences, property, and supporting ‘justifications’. And this is all without any theory of liberty (an eleutherology), which is as absurd as if utilitarianism were to have no theory of utility. Eleutheric-conjectural libertarianism corrects these errors.

It is a particularly acute problem for liberty that the state uses aggressive coercion to monopolise the university-and-degree system and to fund it. This gives most professional intellectuals privileged status and income, thereby creating a powerful pro-state bias. Removing the state from higher education would fix this. It would also dramatically reduce average student fees; a vote-winner, as students and their parents far outnumber socially-parasitic academics.

*The modern name for the historical minarchist-and-anarchist subset of classical liberalism. (Thus it is confusing to call all of classical liberalism "libertarianism", and literally preposterous to assert that libertarianism is the more general category.)

See also: https://jclester.substack.com/