Carl Watner, founding member of The Voluntaryist academic journal/newsletter (along with Wendy McElroy and George H. Smith, in 1982) passed away yesterday after a long fight with cancer. Carl convinced me to call myself a voluntaryist and inspired me to create this website and everything else I’ve done under the voluntaryist label. He was also the first to introduce me to Stoicism, which I talk about in tomorrow’s episode of “Thinking & Doing” (Episode 048). His work can be found at Voluntaryist.com, but here’s an essay on how he became a voluntaryist. A fun fact: he had me send a large print edition of his book I Must Speak Out to Irwin Schiff (father of Peter Schiff), a tax protestor and political prisoner in Federal prison at the time (now deceased). Here is Wendy McElroy on his passing.
Carl Watner, Rest in Peace (1948-2020)
This is SO sad. 🙁 I had no idea about Carl having you send that book to Irwin Schiff (another friend and colleague of mine now gone). 2020, so far, has SUCKED.
I was sad to hear about his passing. Btw, there is nothing at the voluntaryist.com website other than a page with a banner that reads voluntaryist.com. The link to the essay in your article thus shows nothing but a blank page except for the banner that reads voluntaryist.com.
Very strange. It works for me. What browser are you using and I can notify the webmaster.
I used Firefox. Thanks for your response, it caused me to try a different browser and I was able to access the essay using Microsoft Edge.
I use Chrome, and Edge is based on Chrome (now). I’ll let the webmaster know that there may be an issue with Firefox, which is also a popular browser.
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