Episode 360 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: Federal court in Houston protects teen from being forced to cut off his hair by local high school; Germany’s new 3-year donation-funded universal basic income experiment; Danbury, CT naming their sewage plant after HBO comedy news show host John Oliver; Taiwan aiming to free up their economy to replace Hong Kong as area’s financial hub; Ghislaine Maxwell’s concern over getting a fair trial after deposition material released to the public; robocall company and its creditors getting robbed of almost a billion dollars by federal courts; Greece denying their program to send over 1,000 “illegal” migrants back out to see to fend for themselves or get rescued; and more.
Author: Skyler J. Collins (Editor)
Founder and editor of Everything-Voluntary.com and UnschoolingDads.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“. 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 his podcasts, Everything Voluntary and Thinking & Doing.
Empowerment, Economic Growth, Gun Policy Costs, & Antinatalism (32m) – Episode 359
Episode 359 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: why empowerment is not telling people that they are helpless to do anything for themselves and must wait for others to act first; the importance of secure property rights to economic growth; why it’s muddy metaphorical thinking to claim that homicides, suicides, et cetera, are “costs” of loose gun policy; a couple of point against antinatalist philosophy; and more.
Chris J. Returns, Sinister Social Distancing, & Agorism/Counter-Economics (56m) – Episode 358
Episode 358 welcomes back Chris Jenkins to chat with Skyler on the following topics: their Jurassic Park movie favorites, in order; movies during the 2020 pandemic; social distancing verse physical distance and whether something more sinister is afoot; Samuel Konkin III’s agorism and counter-economic strategies for starving the state of tax revenue; civil disobedience; challenging the state’s jurisdictional claims (and a bit on Skyler’s recent experience with his Airbnb, found here); gumming up the gears of state action through courts and in raising the costs of their bureaucratic enforcement; Utah allowing community service in lieu of paying traffic fines and where that law originated; unschooling and homeschooling as agorist action; and more.
Jack C. Returns, NZ Lockdowns, & Be Your Own Authority (1h8m) – Episode 357
Episode 357 welcomes back Jack Carney to chat with Skyler on the following topics: the COVID-19 lockdown experience in Auckland, New Zealand; lockdown protests stateside, their response, and then the George Floyd protests and their opposite response; government coordination on lockdown policies and website resource design; the Milgram experiment and what it says about today’s political climate; the Plandemic documentaries; the medical mafia; the changing usefulness of the Karen meme; why there are so few libertarian types in the world; government as God; the formerly rebellious nature of Mormons; why everyone must be their own authority, their own god; the non-aggression principle and self-defense; Free Friends, voluntary community building; his draft dodging of the Vietnam War in 1967; the Academy of Ideas YouTube channel; and more.
Michael Huemer: The Psychology of Authority (1h17m)
This episode features a talk by philosophy professor Michael Huemer from 2013. Evidence from psychology and history teaches two main lessons about authority: (a) that human beings have a variety of strong, pro-authority biases, and (b) that socially recognized authority is an extremely dangerous phenomenon.
Gossip, Close-Mindedness, Anger, Ignorance, & Moving On (22m) – Episode 018
Episode 018 looks at paying attention to the gossip your friends tell; protecting yourself from getting defensive when you read opinions you don’t agree with; not responding for at least 15 minutes when something makes you angry; the importance of acknowledging that you don’t know something and using it as a bonding opportunity; and moving on from a job that no longer serves you well.
Aaron W. Returns, Interpersonal Domination, & Moralizing (57m) – Episode 356
Episode 356 welcomes back Aaron White to chat with Skyler on the following topics: Aaron leaving California for Texas; arguing versus trying to simply dominate someone in conversation; woke crusading, rooting out heretics, and inspiring fear; cancellation of leftists by woke leftists; whether truth can be racist; race realism and anarchist society; facts and deriving values; feeling defensive when considering implications toward one’s worldview of another’s arguments; why someone should chose “the good”; teasing/ballbusting with your kids; and more.
Economics 101: “Economics for Beginners” & Wizard’s Eleventh Rule: Embrace Life (41m) – Episode 355
Episode 355 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: continuation of the Economics 101 mini-series by reviewing Mises.org’s new short video series “Economics for Beginners”; continuation of the Wizard’s Rules mini-series, Wizard’s Eleventh Rule: “Embrace life, seek strength without hate”; and more.
Kamala Harris’s Ancestry, Amazon Product Liability, & Yale’s Racial Discrimination (48m) – Episode 354
Episode 354 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: fact-checking the claims that Kamala Harris descended from a large plantation and slave owner on her father’s side and a supremacist caste status on her mother’s side; the California court ruling that Amazon can be held liable for damages caused by products sold by third-party sellers and fulfilled by Amazon; and the US Department of Justice determining that Yale University discriminates against “white” and Asian student applicants.
ARK3 Returns, The Year 2020, & Changing Statists’ Minds (1h7m) – Episode 353
Episode 353 welcomes back Alex R. Knight III to chat with Skyler on the following topics: the tumultuous year 2020; coronavirus hysteria; looking forward 10 years and what we should expect; reducing statism through technology instead of ideological persuasion; Kamala Harris’ possible ancestry; what becoming a politician does to people; why voters are rationally ignorant; who’s to blame when democratic government fails; inconsistency in the behaviors we tolerate from other people, government and not; postmodernism; the effectiveness that communist defectors have on getting people in freer countries to see the mistake in pushing for more government; 2020 US presidential election prediction; and more.