Editor’s Pick. Written by Anthony Gregory. Mohandas Gandhi, the greatest pacifist of the 20th century, is widely quoted as having said, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look back upon the Act depriving the whole nation of arms as the blackest.” Some have struggled to reconcile his pacifism with…
Category: Voluntaryism
Reasons I Stopped Caring About Politics
Editor’s Pick. Written by Paul Rosenberg. When I was young, I felt a need to understand politics, and I spent time studying. But as time progressed, I received diminishing returns on that investment. And in the past few years, I have given it up altogether. These days, my concern with politics is limited to things…
Anarchy Defended by Anarchists
Editor’s Pick. Written by Emma Goldman. To most Americans Anarchy is an evil-sounding word — another name for wickedness, perversity, and chaos. Anarchists are looked upon as a herd of uncombed, unwashed, and vile ruffians, bent on killing the rich and dividng their capital. Anarchy, however, to its followers actually signifies a social theory which…
The Other (Worse) Side of the PRISM Scandal
Editor’s Pick. Written by Paul Rosenberg. The fallout from the PRISM scandal has reached Stage Two, where faces in front of television cameras promote memorable slogans to give people reasons to accept their abuse and to pretend that everything is okay. And, overall, these slogans and their promoters break down into to two primary models…
The Irrationality of Politics
Editor’s Pick. Video by Michael Huemer.
The Paradox of Imperialism
Editor’s Pick. Written by Hans Hoppe. The State Conventionally, the state is defined as an agency with two unique characteristics. First, it is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction). That is, it is the ultimate arbiter in every case of conflict, including conflicts involving itself. Second, the state is a territorial monopolist of…
Church and State, Beside the Point
Editor’s Pick. Written by Michael Rozeff. Only because people are forced to live under territorial monopolists is the separation of church from that monopolist an issue of any substance, because then people of different religious persuasions or philosophical beliefs vie for their preferred state and accompanying religious trappings. Read the full thing at LewRockwell.com »
The “Social Contract” With the Government Is a Fraud
Editor’s Pick. Written by Bill Bonner. There are many theories to explain government. Most are nothing but scams, justifications, and puffery. One tries to put something over on the common man… the other claims it was for his own good… and the third pretends that he’d be lost without it. Most are not really “theories”…
Why the Precautionary Principle Counsels Us to Renounce Statism
Editor’s Pick. Written by Robert Higgs. Propose that the state be replaced by genuine self-government and immediately people come forth with a litany of objections—anarchy is a pipe dream; it is untried; it would never work; is fails to solve problem R and problem S; and so forth. So the objectors, however much they may…
State Power and How It Might Be Undermined
Editor’s Pick. Written by Robert Higgs. State power is the most dangerous force in modern life. State rulers, seeking their own aggrandizement and enrichment, employ this power systematically to plunder and abuse their subjects. Of course, they cannot act in this way without the assistance of many others, among whom some assist willingly, some in…