Editor’s Pick. Written by Paul Rosenberg. One of the worst things that has been done to children over the past generation or two has been insulating them from anything that could possibly have any danger attached. Parents keeping their children under permanent watch has become “what people do.” And it’s a BIG mistake. I know…
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How the Silk Road Shutdown Makes Everyone Less Safe
Editor’s Pick. Written by Cathy Reisenwitz. It took someone named Dread Pirate Roberts to create a way for people to buy and sell illegal drugs without the threat of getting hurt and with little threat of getting ripped off. His deep website, Silk Road, was the eBay of the underworld until it was seized by…
Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan
Editor’s Pick. Written by Max Borders and Jeffrey Tucker. State management of society is not only contrary to human liberty; it is also unworkable. It cannot achieve what it seeks to achieve, which is often all-round control of some sector of economic and social life. The attempt provokes a social backlash. People find loopholes and…
Corporations: Incentive to Harm
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sima Qian. As left-anarchists are often quick to point out, corporations have a bloody history. During the colonial era corporate structures were some of the most effective tools of conquest, and today that legacy lives on with “security” firms like G4s, or weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman or BAE…
Intellectual Property is Not True Property
Editor’s Pick. Written by David S. D’Amato. In a world where the “new economy” — the Information Age’s digital one — has rendered traditional capital goods such as heavy machinery significantly less important, issues surrounding intellectual property are arguably more urgent than ever before. The course that the political class has chosen in its analyses…
The Dance of Unschooling
Editor’s Pick. Written by Pam Laricchia. Reader Question: I would love to hear your take on unschooling in a co-operative circumstance. How much “getting out of the way” and how much instigating would you encourage? I know all kids and families are different but isn’t it just as much our responsibility to teach kids how…
Intellectual Property and Mind Control
Editor’s Pick. Written by Foo Quuxman. Much has been said about the problems of intellectual property here and elsewhere which I won’t go into today, however there is one implication of IP that I have not noticed in any of the writings of the anti-IP thinkers Property is defined as the exclusive right to possess…
Withdraw Your Consent From the State
Editor’s Pick. Written by Michael S. Rozeff. Withdrawing consent to the state means more than this innocuous phrase may suggest. To withdraw consent is far-reaching. It means a divorce from the state insofar as this is possible. It means having no loyalty to the state, seeing the state as fundamentally unfair and a source of…
The New Class of Learning
Editor’s Pick. Video by Euronews.
Why Choice is Key in Learning Life Skills
Editor’s Pick. Written by Pam Laricchia. The unschooling lifestyle in support of learning life skills is a wonderful dance of everyday living, relationships, and choice: The usefulness of these life skills shows up in the everyday living—eating, sleeping, taking care of our bodies, taking care of our stuff, maintaining our environment etc. We live with…