Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. If you make the same resolution every year, join the club. That doesn’t mean you’re a failure. It means you’re headed in the right direction, and you aren’t perfect yet. (Shocking, I know!) The bad news is, you won’t be perfect this year either. The good news is, you…
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American Children and Foreign Children
Written by Jacob G. Hornberger for The Future of Freedom Foundation. If there is a more emotionally painful experience than a parent’s losing a child, I can’t imagine what it would be. The emotional wound is raw and goes down to the deepest recesses of a person’s heart and soul. And as we see with…
Intellectual Property as a Form of Slavery
Written by fifth_imp for /r/Anarcho_Capitalism. I say that the notion of claiming an idea as property is absurd, and in fact constitutes a form of slavery. So, let’s break this down. What is an idea? Is an idea a tangible object? No, of course not. An idea is a pulse of electricity in your brain.…
I Do Have a Choice
Written by R.S. Jaggard for The Voluntaryist, June 1991. I want to be productive. I want to produce goods and services of value to my neighbors, and, I want to deal with them in willing exchange for mutual benefits. My life-long ambitions, my training and experience, and my present position all add up to the…
Religion and Freedom
Written by Robert A. Sirico for The Future of Freedom Foundation. [One] frequently hears the objection that in order to believe in God and morality, almost all means, including the mechanism of the state, are justified to promote and advance these worthy ideals. Likewise there is often, among the friends of liberty, a certain confusion,…
Social Action and Social Norms
Written by Clayton for The Voluntaryist Reader. Every acting being has a morality, that is, has preferred ends and acts on those preferences. The ultimate end which lies behind every action is that end which is never a means to any other end – this ultimate end can be called satisfaction, happiness or pleasure.Read the…
A Critique of Leftist Anarchism
Written by Neodoxy for The Voluntaryist Reader. If communism, syndicalism, egalitarianism, and democracy are all as natural and positive as…the radical left claim, then they should be happy to remove the state and allow society to spontaneously flow into its “natural” shape. Let’s stop playing these name games and work towards disbanding the state. Then…
The State Is Our Church
Written by Bryce Beattie for LewRockwell.com. It seems to me as if most of the citizens of the United States of America have stopped worshiping the god they claim to worship. Instead, they worship a bizarre and amorphous group of men and women we refer to as “The Government” or “The State”, hereafter called by…
Thoughts on Violence
Written by Clayton for The Voluntaryist Reader. Violence is related to voluntaryism in that we can roughly define choices influenced by threats of violence as non-voluntary. Violence is not a uniquely human experience. In fact, human social interactions are remarkably non-violent by comparison to the rest of the natural world. Violence between biological organisms manifests…
How the State Will Die
Written by Jeffrey Tucker for Laissez Faire Today. Today, YouTube hosts vast quantities of material that, two years ago, was considered to be pirated and illegal. It is all there serving hundreds of millions of users who don’t pay a dime to get to it. It is doing what Napster did at the turn of…