Editor’s Pick. Written by Leo Babauta. It seems that many parents here in the U.S. (and very possibly in other countries) are worried about how much their child is learning by a certain age. Does my kid know everything that a 2nd grader should know? Is my kid learning as fast as other 3-year-olds? Does…
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What’s So Bad About Servitude?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Paul Rosenberg. Some years ago I found myself at dinner with a small group of people. We had a pleasant time, but soon enough, someone brought up my “weird” opinions. I explained that I was an advocate for freedom and opposed restrictions on it. A spirited debate followed, of course, and…
Authoritarian Sociopathy
Editor’s Pick. Written by Davi Barker. Many anarchists and libertarians eagerly study the psychology of tyrants in an effort to know their enemy in the battlefield of politics. Getting into the minds of our enemy is regarded as a strategy, a means to our political ends… which is an end to political means. However, I…
Adding Up All the Little Things
Editor’s Pick. Written by Hilinda. All curriculum still has two things in common. One is that life is separated into subjects at all, and the other is that there is an order in which things are taught that is decided on by someone other than the person doing the learning. So how does the person…
Unapologetic Anarchism
Editor’s Pick. Written by Alex R. Knight, III. The most obvious question that never gets asked is: “What, pray tell, makes you believe that those who call themselves government – those whose very livings are derived from stolen and extorted loot (taxes), are themselves more heavily armed than anyone else, and are responsible for every…
Yin and Yang: The Market and the State
Editor’s Pick. Written by Greg Allmain. One of the oldest and most popular representations of the duality of man and nature is the Yin and Yang. Light and dark, life and death, happiness and sadness, all bundled up in a simple black and white symbol. The idea of Yin and Yang can also be applied…
Holding on to Collectivized Security
Editor’s Pick. Written by Shawn Gregory. As an anarchist, I am accustomed to getting grief from conservatives, progressives, and Statists of other stripes, but among libertarians, I occasionally get significant grief from those with whom should otherwise be on much friendlier terms: minarchists. Generally speaking, there are two types of minarchists. The first kind of…
Nonviolent Resistance is Not Futile
Editor’s Pick. Written by Benett Freeman (original). Some thoughts on resistance… 1. Individual, isolated acts of resistance – whether violent or not – cannot bring about an end to industrial civilisation or any aspect of the incumbent paradigm. 2. With sufficient (majority) support, the sheer weight of popular, non-violent, resistance will be enough to depose…
Rethinking Tattling
Editor’s Pick. Written by L. R. Knost. Few things irritate adults as quickly as a tattle-tale. The kneejerk response is often “Stop tattling!” or “Handle it yourself!” or even to shame (heard of the ‘Get Along Shirt’ where parents force their squabbling children into close bodily contact with one another instead of helping them to…
A Theory of Civil Disobedience in Three Minutes
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jason Brennan. Civil disobedience is one of the easiest topics in political philosophy. Civil disobedience is at base the conscientious decision to break a law on the grounds that it’s unjust. It may or may not be accompanied by active public resistance and displays, a willingness to submit to punishment, attempts…