Akiva Malamet

Biography

Akiva Malamet is completing his degree in Government at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, where he was a long‐​time senior member of the RRIS Debate Society. He is a contributor to the sites Liberal Currents and Sweet Talk Conversation. His paper “Spontaneous Order as Social Construction: A Social Analysis of Emergent Institutions” was a co‐​recipient of the 2018 Carl Menger Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.

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Reconciling Libertarian and Leftist Views of Power and Equality
Akiva Malamet
Reconciling Libertarian and Leftist Views of Power and Equality

There are a lot of similarities in the two ideologies’ critiques of power and domination, but great differences in how they view state vs. market power. Yet both can learn from each other.

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Akiva Malamet
Vice in The Virtue of Nationalism

Hazony’s views about the role of individuals and the nature of ethics mean that nations of any type are permitted to wage unjust war and impose sweeping domestic oppression. This nationalism should not guide our thinking today.

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Akiva Malamet
Postmodernism: A Libertarian Introduction

What is postmodernism, really? And how does it relate to libertarian thought?