After getting settled in to his new home in Maryland, Jason Kuznicki has jumped into the exchange I had with Mark Olson about the meaning of 'liberty' in the Declaration of Independence. That's valuable, because it gives us the perspective of a real historian in evaluating the situation. He essentially comes down on my side of the dispute, with a couple small caveats.
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Mark Olson has written a response to my reply to his post on the meaning of the word 'liberty' in the Declaration of Independence. Unfortunately, I don't think he has mitigated any of the logical difficulties with the original post. He begins:
First, I didn't look at the corpus of writings of those…
Round 3 with Mark Olson over the meaning of the liberty in the Declaration of Independence. Unfortunately, I don't think there's anything really being added to the argument at this point in his new post on the subject. He begins:
As I had enjoyed, and I think learned much, from Mr Fischer's book…
Over at PseudoPolymath, Mark Olson has what I regard as a very oddly reasoned post about the meaning of liberty in the Declaration of Independence. He has been reading a book called Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Fischer, which according to his recounting, details 4…
Timothy Sandefur returns from his temporary exile to write a long and thoughtful post about the Schiavo situation. And congratulations to him for closing on a new home with his lovely Erin. Jason Kuznicki, meanwhile, has also written a good post on the subject. He concludes with this:
For the…