Writes Tom Woods: “Who will build the roads?” is the question that belongs at the top of every libertarian drinking game. If we didn’t have forced labor, the argument runs, there would be no roads. There’d be a Sears store over there, and your house over here, and everyone involved would just be standing there…
Category: Items of Note
To Better Take Care of One Another
Writes Free Your Kids: Just something I’ve been thinking about… Perhaps we’re doing it all wrong. Maybe the idea that one man and one woman get hitched, set-up their own distinct home, and raise their children (basically alone) is the cause of many of our current societal problems. Taking care of children is difficult. Even…
That Hope is You
Writes Free Your Kids: For the children who’ve been screamed at, belittled, mocked, and shamed; for the children who live in angry homes, enduring hostile conditions; for the children who suffer emotional, verbal, and physical abuse; for those suffering neglect and maltreatment… For the children who have been raised in violence; for the children cowering…
Can the Internet Save Us?
Writes Robert Higgs: Many of my freedom-loving friends have great confidence that communication via the Internet and the World Wide Web will prove to be a game-changer in the fight against the disinformation and propaganda disseminated by the state and its running dogs, and that the greater ease of spreading the truth will shift the…
Stop Walking Into the Abyss
Writes Free Your Kids: The first step is the toughest… Mama told me things had to change. We couldn’t continue this way. We had ceased spanking years before. We were still using a combination of yelling, isolation (in the form of a “naughty step”), and shaming to control the children’s behavior. We were drowning. Our…
Re: Control is War
A fellow redditor asked me: “War begins…when you attempt to forcibly control someone else without their permission.” It seems believable, but could you possibly expand on how you got to this conclusion? Thanks! And I responded: It seems obvious to me, but I suppose that’s not satisfactory… A 2-person fight is, in principle, war. It’s…
Discover Their Own Truths
Writes Free Your Kids: My wife and I are not religious people. We were both raised in Christian homes, but do not currently follow any organized religion. The question before us, then, is how to best allow our children to decide for themselves what they believe. Certainly, a child raised in a Christian home has…
What Makes No Sense
Asks Jeffrey Tucker: Here’s what makes no sense: hand over power to an elite, then let that elite both make and enforce the laws, then allow that elite to take whatever it wants to from us and do with it what they will, and then grant that elite nearly complete immunity from prosecution in the…
A Plea for Civil Discourse
Writes Free Your Kids: Whatever your beliefs, you are doing your movement a disservice when you personally attack those with differing opinions. If you believe spanking to be wrong, it does no good – in fact, it does great harm – to tell a spanker that they are evil. You are not going to sway…
We Can Do Better Than This
Writes Free Your Kids: When we libertarians, voluntarists, and anarchists say that the state should not be providing a service, we are not saying that the service in question shouldn’t be provided. The hungry need to be fed. The disabled need to be cared for. The children need to be educated. The roads need to…