Author: Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

Founder and editor of Everything-Voluntary.com, Skyler is a husband and unschooling father of three beautiful children. His writings include the column series “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” and “One Improved Unit,” and blog series “Two Cents” and “Items of Note.” Skyler also wrote the books No Hitting! and Toward a Free Society, and edited the books Everything Voluntary and Unschooling Dads. You can hear Skyler chatting away on the official Everything-Voluntary.com podcast.

Editor’s Break 029 – Why “Price Gouging” is Not Evil (12m)

August 29, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

Editor's Break 029 looks at the practice of raising prices of important goods and services during a disaster, popular decried as "price gouging." (See referenced Facebook post here.)...

Editor’s Break 028 – When It Rains It Pours (14m)

August 28, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

Editor's Break 028 is a look at the personal disasters that have been plaguing Skyler as a homeowner lately, and why they are nothing to fret over. Listen...

Putting Principle above Party, People, and the Past

August 19, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

I prefer to put principle above party, people, and the past. I'm not only referring to political parties, but to all sorts of groups whose members associate on...

Political Action Exacerbates the Problem of Hate

August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

Politics is your neighbor and his like-minded friends rallying together to lobby for government to shift their criminal activities policies in their favor. If your neighbor and his...

Telling Pricks and Criminals to Stop is Only Half the Battle

August 17, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

I'd like to think that I have a cure for prickish behaviors like racism and bigotry. Does my cure do anything to the pricks in question? Not at...

Episode 077 – Jordan’s Journey (1h11m)

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

Episode 077 welcomes Jordan Vaughn Neal to the podcast to chat with Skyler about his journey to voluntaryism. Topics include: golf, the anarchy in cooperative games, Facebook discussions/debates,...

While I’m Far More Inclined to be a Prick Online, I’m Definitely Not a Bigot

August 16, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

I don't know how racist I am, or sexist I am, or otherwise bigoted I am. Maybe a little. Definitely not a lot. Maybe not even a little. Maybe...

Progressives Have Too Much Faith and Trust in Political Power

August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

Despite most economists accepting that value is subjectively derived, since the Marginal Revolution, there are people who still consider free exchange as always win-lose. It's absolutely true that...

My Ongoing Battle with Leviathan

August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

In January of this year (2017) I was notified that my 2015 tax return was going to be audited. 2015 was the first tax year that I wasn't...

Government Law is a Death Penalty

August 13, 2017 Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

I didn't properly credit my friend and co-host Morgan Aldous for the way I heard him explain how government law leads to the death penalty. Here's what I...

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