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Frédéric Bastiat, the intellectual P. J. O’Rourke of his day? There is a splendid little article about Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) by Gary M. Galles which give a good overview of what the man was all about.
I have always though modern anti-statists would do well to emulate Bastiat, because as well as being extremely coherent, he was a very witty satirist (for example his Petition of the Candlemakers for state protection against the unfair competition of the sun). Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek called him a “publicist of genius.”
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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