Person of the Year

The decision by Time Magazine to select Pope Francis as its “Person of the Year” instead of whistleblower Edward Snowden is quite frankly, unsurprising. Even as Snowden continues to reveal the heinous crimes which are being daily committed by the world’s most powerful statist regimes, the Pope is using his platform to call for a…

Hazlitt, Balko, “Private Sector”

Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. It never…

The Property Paradigm

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that there are really only two camps of people in the political and philosophical worlds: Those who recognize the reality of private property and those who support force and theft. Ultimately, statists don’t truly believe in private property (no matter how much they may extol the virtues of “capitalism”) because they…

The Ominous Parallels

Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. Archived columns can be found here. FFT-only RSS feed available here.…