Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. One’s worldview as it concerns the political landscape shapes one’s angle of skepticism. Claims by governments and political leaders…
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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.…
Imposing Rules on Children: Is There a Better Way?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sue Elvis. Some people might say that family rules are essential because they ensure a child knows what is right, and avoids what is wrong, and so he will act appropriately. If the rules are broken, then the child will have to face the consequences, which might include punishment. “My children…
Getting Kids to Help with the Chores
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sue Elvis. It took me years to work out how to encourage my children to help with the household chores. Before that happened, I tried all the usual methods: I designed rosters with jobs for each child for each day of the week. I wrote out lists of chores and let…
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…
Navigating Communication, Dysinformation, The Role of Emotion
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original bi-weekly 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. This…
The Ideal of Informed Consumerism
Editor’s Pick. Written by Connor Boyack. The government destroys informed consumerism when they prevent … consumers from making their own choices and reaping whatever consequences may come. A state that treats its citizens like adults must step out of the way and allow them to ingest what they please, provided nobody else’s rights are violated…
Self-Ownership as Birthright
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of “children’s rights” over the last several months; really wrestling with…
Rights as an Entitlement to Self-Owning Action
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Last week we examined in detail the…
Your Pain Isn’t Special
Send him mail. “Insight for the Young and Unrestrained” is an original weekly column appearing every Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Gregory V. Diehl. Gregory is a writer, musician, educator, and coach for young people at EnabledYouth.com. Archived columns can be found here. IYU-only RSS feed available here. Whenever the occasional local massacre or tragedy occurs,…