Guest post by Murray Rothbard. In no area has the Left been granted justice and morality as extensively and almost universally as in its espousal of massive equality. It is rare indeed in the United States to find anyone, especially any intellectual, challenging the beauty and goodness of the egalitarian ideal. So committed is everyone…
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How Could a Monster Succeed in Blinding a Nation?
Guest post by Alice Miller. Is it still possible in today’s Germany to escape the realization that without the mistreatment of children, without a form of child-rearing based on violence to inculcate blind obedience, there would not have been a Hitler and his followers? And thus not millions of murdered victims either? Probably every thinking…
Rothbardian Ethics
Guest post by Hans Hoppe. In the history of social and political thought many proposals have been advanced as an alleged solution to the problem of social order, and this variety of mutually inconsistent proposals has contributed to the fact that today the search for a single “correct” problem solution is frequently deemed illusory. Yet…
What is Economics?
Guest post by Percy L. Greaves. Economics is sometimes thought of as a very dry and dismal subject dealing with dusty tomes of statistics about material goods and services. Economics is not a dry subject. It is not a dismal subject. It is not about statistics. It is about human life. It is about the…
Can a Single Parent Unschool?
Guest post by Jan Hunt. These days, many parents find themselves alone, whether by choice or by circumstances. Many of these parents assume that unschooling is not an option for them, but like many other assumptions, this can be self-fulfilling. Happily, unschooling in single parent families is easier now than it has ever been. With…
Emotions are Not Bad Behavior
Guest post by Robin Grille. One of the most commonly heard parental laments is about how children try to get attention. So many behaviors that adults don’t like are brushed off as “merely” attention-seeking devices. “Don’t worry about him,” we say, “he is just doing it to get attention.” When children use oblique ways to…
Times Change, Principles Don’t
Guest post by Lew Rockwell. [The] libertarian critique of government is not contingent on or tied to time and place, one that can be abandoned when the moment seems to call for government action. The libertarian critique of government is foundational. It says that in all times and places, the coercive power of the state…
Living an Unschooling Life
Guest post by Pam Sorooshian. Unschooling is both easy and difficult to describe. The easy answer is that unschooling means “not schooling,” but it is a lot harder to explain what we do instead of schooling. Unschooling means not depending on the usual school methods. It means no lesson plans, no curriculum, no assignments, no…
Children Don’t Really Misbehave
Guest post by Thomas Gordon. Most parents and teachers think of children as either “behaving” or “misbehaving”. This labeling of behavior as “good” and “bad” begins when the child is quite young. In our training programs we try to help parents see that children don’t really misbehave. Interestingly enough, the term is almost exclusively applied…