Editor’s Pick. Written by Wheylous. When anarcho-capitalists argue that protection should be provided in a private manner by companies instead of coercively by governments, opponents maintain that neighboring police agencies will start fighting amongst each other. The argument goes that one company will decide that it will make more money if it physically forces another…
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Satoshi Nakamoto: Natural Elite to the Rescue
Editor’s Pick. Written by Doug French. Meanwhile, as the financial world melted down in 2008, a person or group of people developed the cyber-currency Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. This innovation epitomizes the natural elite in action. He, she, or they designed and created the original Bitcoin software, currently known as Bitcoin-Qt. This brilliant…
Learning by the Seat of Your Soul
Editor’s Pick. Written by Allen and Laura Ellis. After dark on a summer evening, an 8-year-old boy named Allen and his mother sat on the blacktop driveway, which was still warm from the day’s sun, drawing with chalk. But they weren’t drawing daisies and rainbows and other normal-type pictures–they were doing geometry. Why? Because Allen…
A Tale of Two Political Systems
Editor’s Pick. Video by Eric Li. Editor’s note: This is not an endorsement of political China, but merely something the editor found interesting as it concerns Hans Hoppe’s thesis on democracy.
The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate
Editor’s Pick. Video by Robert Higgs.
A Positive Outlook Isn’t Turning a Blind Eye
Editor’s Pick. Written by Pam Laricchia. Last week I talked about finding joy, that deeper sense of self that no longer seems quite so susceptible to the whims of life and luck. Yet, as I mentioned, it’s not that life no longer has disappointments or challenges, so I thought I’d talk a bit about when…
The Faux Slavery Analogy to Voting
Editor’s Pick. Written by Wendy McElroy. I oppose electoral voting on both moral and strategic grounds. In presenting the Voluntaryist case against electoral voting, however, I commonly encounter the slavery analogy as a counterargument in support of defensive voting. A classic formulation of it comes from Walter Block who argues, “Suppose we were slaves, and…
Unschooling and Free Schools
Editor’s Pick. Written by Marike Reid-Gaudet. I’m interested in unschooling because it’s an applied philosophy rather than a teaching method. This philosophy, which I strive to use daily with my son, who is now 16 years old, is also the one used in free schools. For me, this approach to life and to children’s’ development…
Finding Joy
Editor’s Pick. Written by Pam Laricchia. First, what do I mean by the word joy? Certainly it means happiness, pleasure. Most people can find happiness in response to good things that happen to them or around them. Yet when disappointing things happen, they are thrown into despair. It’s tough to be at the mercy of…
Ask A Different Question
Editor’s Pick. Written by Liberty. Libertarians are regularly asked questions about how a libertarian country would solve a certain social problem. That whole idea is a bit ridiculous but there is a quick solution to just about everyone of those questions. Questions that are asked are generally leading towards a statist solution. Despite the poor…