Episode 274 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the launch of the Everything-Voluntary.com podcast network; his forthcoming podcasts on logic, stoicism, personal belief, and unschooling; an article he wrote in August 2018 explaining the premises and hypotheses of voluntaryism; and more.
Category: Podcast
Self-Defense, Children Cussing, Yoga Pants, Entitlements, & Freedom (22m) – Episode 273
Episode 273 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: teaching children to defend themselves from bullies; allowing children to use cuss words; the emergence of yoga pants fashion; how entitlements are antithetical to liberty; the dumb phrase “freedom is not free”; and more.
Astra Taylor: The Unschooled Life (1h12m)
This episode features a lecture by Astra Taylor from 2012 on what it was like for her growing up without school. Raised by independent-thinking bohemian parents, Astra was unschooled until age 13. Join the filmmaker as she shares her personal experiences of growing up homeschooled without a curriculum or schedule, and how it has shaped her educational philosophy and development as an artist.
Shit and Rainbows & The Proper Role of Government (17m) – Episode 272
Episode 272 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: his one simple trick to combat anxiety; remembering that life is shit and rainbows; the proper role of government and why “the state” is without legitimate and justified authority on that basis; and more.
NFL Football, Voluntaryist Voices Podcast, & Toxic Masculinity (25m) – Episode 271
Episode 271 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: enjoying the NFL’s NFC and AFC Conference championship games; his prediction for the coming Super Bowl winner; the new podcast by EVC featuring lectures and interviews by voluntaryist giants past and present; understanding toxic masculinity by live-reading an essay shared by a friend; and more.
James Duane: Don’t Talk to The Police (47m)
This episode features a lecture by Regent University law professor James Duane from 2012. He gives listeners startling reasons why they should always remain silent when questioned by government officials.
Lookism, Colonizing Mars, Expectations, Gender Expression, & Egalitarianism (25m) – Episode 270
Episode 270 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: what lookism is and why it’s absurd; his view on colonizing Mars and the space program; why parental expectations of children should begin and end with joy; the infinite number of genders in the world; why markets are best suited toward bringing about egalitarian ideals; and more.
Gillette Social Justice & An Attack on Voluntaryism Rebutted (40m) – Episode 269
Episode 269 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the new Gillette commercial admonishing men to be better men, in part by keeping other men under control; the patriarchal undertones of the Gillette commercial; the unfortunate oversights of not including women (mothers) in their admonishment in how boys are raised and the absence of striking the root issue of violent and coercive parenting practices; the claim that voluntaryism is “exploitation pretending to be anarchism”; where left anarchists make major mistakes in their critique of voluntaryist and anarcho-capitalist theory; and more.
Murray Rothbard: How I Became a Libertarian (1h32m)
This episode features a lecture by Austrian School economist, historian, and political philosopher Murray Rothbard from 1981. He tells the story of how he came to learn about economics and libertarianism as he grew up in the Bronx and attended Columbia University in the 1930s and 40s. He reminisces about meeting Frank Chodorov, Baldy Harper,…
YouTube, Taxation, Voluntaryists, Conquest, & Economics (25m) – Episode 268
Episode 268 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: YouTube’s copyright claim system and the trouble that its causing; why libertarian types complain about what government spends its ill-gotten gains on; voluntaryist time-traveler solutions to the problem of Hitler; the peculiarity in descendants of conquered people sharing in the religious/political sensibilities of their ancestor’s conquerors; the value of economics in shifting moral outrage from market actors to government actors; and more.