Alex R. Knight III is originally from Groveland, Massachusetts, where he grew up listening to rock and roll, reading J.R.R. Tolkien, and the comic books of the 1970s. He today lives in rural southern Vermont where he welds, plays guitar, paints abstracts, reads avidly, and writes. He is the author of the short fiction collection, Tales From Dark 7, in addition to the novels The Morris Room, and Empty World. And, he is a Voluntaryist. Visit his MeWe group here.
I was just recently contemplating the fact that Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (1848), Gustave de Molinari's The Production of Security (1849), and many if not most of Lysander Spooner's core works all coincided with one another temporally. Yet, look at the enormous influence Marxist socialism and...
“Progressives” – those who believe that a maximized involvement of government in your life and economic affairs (not just theirs, of course) is in fact progress, i.e., the creation of a better world – see individual liberty as a liability,...
Mark Zuckerberg was the first to create a program we now refer to as a social media network, and was thereby successful in establishing Facebook (more properly known now as Fascistbook) as the "industry standard." When I first joined a decade...
On March 26, 2020, at the once excellent but now mostly defunct website Daily Anarchist, Seth King broke almost five years of silence by publishing a piece that contained the following statement: “I don’t think libertarians, be they minimalists or...
There will never come a day -- ever -- when the political class decides that there are numerous enough laws, enough taxes, and enough control mechanisms over people's lives. They will constantly continue to create more and more of these...
You're not "woke." You're blind, and living in a dream-land. You're not "progressive." You're RE-gressive. You're anti-progress. You actively seek the destruction of progress and freedoms that have taken literally thousands of years of bloodshed, toil, suffering, and sacrifice to bring even this...
It is beyond any measure of denial to assert that the American experiment in “limited government” – “constitutional” or otherwise – has proven itself an abject failure. The US government is the largest, most expensive, and most powerful cabal on...
Part 1: Removing Yourself I have long been of the opinion, as a Voluntaryist, that there are only two legitimate ways of voting: With your money, in terms what products and services you choose to buy (outside of taxation, of...
One thing most people overlook in the course of day to day life is the degree to which governments make everything we purchase far more expensive than it would otherwise be. Consider that every company that manufactures a product needs...
We always hear a lot about being positive in one’s outlook – the “power of positive thinking,” we’re told, is all important. Keep a bright outlook, and wonders will occur in your life. I want to begin by clearing the...