Editor’s Break 118 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: a summation of his views on praying to the state to enforce its arbitrary borders; racial prejudice directed at white people; the obligatory nature of state coercion; why suffering is often a good thing; when children should be exposed to violence; and more.
Category: Everything Voluntary
Immigration and America (24m) – Editor’s Break 117
Editor’s Break 117 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: getting a parking ticket, finally, after six months of food delivery; his grandmother’s improving situation; an article he wrote in March of 2008 on what the country should do about the illegal immigration problem; and more.
Stoicism, Schooling, Climate Change, & Elder Care (36m) – Editor’s Break 116
Editor’s Break 116 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: practicing the Stoic teaching of recognizing your own complicity in your emotional reactions to the speech of others; the insidious institution of schooling and its coercion and manipulation of children; how markets will respond to the grave and dire threat of climate change; the sad state of affairs in his culture toward care for the elderly; and more.
Intellectual Property & Stealing Future Profits (30m) – Editor’s Break 115
Editor’s Break 115 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: resources and scarcity; the purpose of property rights; ideas as patterns of information; the attempt to apply property rights to non-scarce ideas in the forms of copyright and patent; why intellectual property makes everyone a thief; how intellectual property rights necessarily violate material property rights; the argument that copying ideas is to steal future profits; and more.
Assumptions We Make & Corporate Welfare (22m) – Editor’s Break 114
Editor’s Break 114 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the narratives we build about other people and the unfair and probably wrong assumptions we end up making; his March 2008 essay on corporate welfare; and more.
Colonialism, Confirmation Imperative, Baby Steps, Egalitarianism, & Immigrants II (32m) – Editor’s Break 113
Editor’s Break 113 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the identical and nefarious motivations of colonialism and statism; upgrading confirmation bias to confirmation imperative; the virtue of baby steps toward reducing coercion in society; why humans are naturally egalitarian, how far that goes, and why it’s disastrous as public policy; the voluntaryist solutions to the public benefits to immigrants problem; and more.
Public Shootings and Self-Defense (18m) – Editor’s Break 112
Editor’s Break 112 has Skyler reading and adding commentary to an essay he wrote in May of 2007 titled, “Public Shootings and Self-Defense”.
Fixing Shitholes, Sandboxes, Intelligence, Nullification, & Politics (41m) – Editor’s Break 111
Editor’s Break 111 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the terrible advice that is encouraging people in third world countries to stay and attempt to fix their governmental problems; the value in thinking of ideologies as sandboxes; what intelligence is and is not; the praiseworthiness that is the act of nullifying liberty-encroaching government laws; the contentious nature of politics; and more.
Voting Shmoting, or Why I Didn’t Vote (28m) – Editor’s Break 110
Editor’s Break 110 has Skyler listing and exploring the many different realizations that he’s made over the last ten years that have pushed him into becoming a principled non-voter.
Constitutions, Central Planning, the Paranormal, Regrets, & Bounties (24m) – Editor’s Break 109
Editor’s Break 109 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the effectiveness of state constitutions and the reason for an amendment process; how enforcing borders is central planning; his belief in paranormal mystery and the existence of UFOs; a somewhat better way to look at regrets about the past; how free societies would deal with brutal foreign political leaders via bounties; and more.