Editor’s Pick. Written by Sima Qian. As left-anarchists are often quick to point out, corporations have a bloody history. During the colonial era corporate structures were some of the most effective tools of conquest, and today that legacy lives on with “security” firms like G4s, or weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman or BAE…
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Intellectual Property is Not True Property
Editor’s Pick. Written by David S. D’Amato. In a world where the “new economy” — the Information Age’s digital one — has rendered traditional capital goods such as heavy machinery significantly less important, issues surrounding intellectual property are arguably more urgent than ever before. The course that the political class has chosen in its analyses…
The Dance of Unschooling
Editor’s Pick. Written by Pam Laricchia. Reader Question: I would love to hear your take on unschooling in a co-operative circumstance. How much “getting out of the way” and how much instigating would you encourage? I know all kids and families are different but isn’t it just as much our responsibility to teach kids how…
Intellectual Property and Mind Control
Editor’s Pick. Written by Foo Quuxman. Much has been said about the problems of intellectual property here and elsewhere which I won’t go into today, however there is one implication of IP that I have not noticed in any of the writings of the anti-IP thinkers Property is defined as the exclusive right to possess…
Withdraw Your Consent From the State
Editor’s Pick. Written by Michael S. Rozeff. Withdrawing consent to the state means more than this innocuous phrase may suggest. To withdraw consent is far-reaching. It means a divorce from the state insofar as this is possible. It means having no loyalty to the state, seeing the state as fundamentally unfair and a source of…
The New Class of Learning
Editor’s Pick. Video by Euronews.
Why Choice is Key in Learning Life Skills
Editor’s Pick. Written by Pam Laricchia. The unschooling lifestyle in support of learning life skills is a wonderful dance of everyday living, relationships, and choice: The usefulness of these life skills shows up in the everyday living—eating, sleeping, taking care of our bodies, taking care of our stuff, maintaining our environment etc. We live with…
The Worry That Your Unschooler Isn’t Learning What He Should Be Learning
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…
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…