Written by Alex Perales for Alex and Liberty. In wake of all the commotion about having individual states secede from the union to stop the great evils of the Federal Government, I think many are completely missing the point and the history that goes along with it. I disagree with those that call sympathizers of…
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Freedom Works Both Ways
Written by Dean Russell for The Voluntaryist, June 1989. Everybody says he’s in favor of freedom. Even the Soviet leaders claim to be fighting for freedom. So did Hitler. Our own leaders are also for freedom. So was my slave-owning grandfather. But my grandfather failed to understand the fact that freedom is a mutual relationship;…
Islam and Markets
Written by Imad A. Ahmad for Minaret.org. The relationship between Islam and trade is not well appreciated in the West. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his wife Khadija were both merchants. The Qur’an, the Muslim scripture, is filled with parables using the language of trade. It was merchants, not soldiers, who were…
Baby, You Rock My World
Written by Darci Walker for Core Parenting. Oh, I know what your thinking. But no, I mean it literally. Children ROCK our world. They take what we think is true and right and normal and they squish it up in their chubby little fists and throw it into the toy box to be lost among…
A Way Out – Victory Without Violence
Written by Carl Watner for The Voluntaryist, June 1989. Marshall Fritz of the Advocates for Self-Government recently loaned me a copy of John Yoder’s book, titled What Would You Do: If a Violent Person Threatened to Harm a Loved One… At dinner one evening, we were discussing the question of what I would do if an…
Why I Hate School But Love Education
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The Case Against Intellectual Property Rights
Written by Roderick Long for Formulations in 1995. The status of intellectual property rights (copyrights, patents, and the like) is an issue that has long divided libertarians. Such libertarian luminaries as Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, and Ayn Rand have been strong supporters of intellectual property rights. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was ambivalent on the…
Is Property Theft?
Written by Less Antman for the Center for a Stateless Society. “Property is Theft!” was the battle cry of one prominent French anarchist in the 19th century. “Au contraire, mon frère,” retorted another. “Property is Liberty!” “You’re both wrong,” said a third. “Property is Impossible!” How such people got along with each other is amazing.…
Peaceful Parenting, Peaceful World
Written by Alex Perales for Alex and Liberty. When it comes to most libertarians it is easy to acknowledge that we, in general, dislike those who believe they have some kind of authority over us. We generally don’t want other people telling us what to do and how to live our lives. We often say…
The State’s Anti-Responsibility Vortex
Written by Wrong-Opinion for FreedomFeens.com. Is the blood of a 16 year old American boy on the hands of Obama? If not Obama, then the military commander who passed the order to a soldier? If not him, the soldier who pressed the proverbial big red button, sending a radio signal to a drone, thereby launching…