Just War II, Skeptical Spooner, Buzzwords

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. In the…

Episode 060 – Skyler Interviewed on the No State Project (1h19m)

Episode 060 features an interview of Skyler by Marc Stevens of the No State Project on LRN.fm. They talk about voluntaryism, evidence of jurisdiction, moral outrage and ethics, blowback, pacifism, cops, and a host of other topics. Listen to Episode 060 (1h19m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Everything-Voluntary.com, “About“Skyler’s Column, “The Philosophy of Voluntaryism“Skyler’s Column, “Evidence of…

No Hitting! – Full Book

No Hitting! A Short Guide on Why Spanking is Unnecessary by Skyler J. Collins, Published 2015 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Paperback ($6) and other digital formats found here. Preface Here it is, my third published work and second written entirely by myself. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting was an anthology I…

About the Author

Table of Contents Previous – Further Reading About the Author Skyler J. Collins lives with his beautiful wife and three wonderful children in Salt Lake City, Utah. He’s a voluntaryist and radical unschooler. He enjoys reading, writing, and podcasting about anything on liberty, economics, philosophy, religion, science, health, and childhood development. He and his wife…

Smart Phones, Spooner #17, Mental Models

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. Yes, I…

Toward a Free Society – Full Book

Toward a Free Society A Short Guide on Building a Culture of Liberty by Skyler J. Collins, Published 2015 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalPaperback ($6) and other digital formats found here. Preface This isn’t my first publication, but it is my first publication that I authored entirely. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting…

RE: Profits

Nobody asked but … Government interference in the market is just like daylight savings time.  At best it can only create the appearance of change, even if it were a friction free manipulation.  Since the government never needs to justify adequately their intervention with a fair evaluation according to Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson —…

An Open Letter to Anarcho-Socialists

Socialism is an economic system based on the collectivist ownership (e.g., co-ops, worker-management, the people as a whole, etc.) of the means of production (i.e., capital). Anarcho-socialism (a.k.a., social anarchism) is likewise, except ownership is voluntary, without a state. Different schools of thought make up this ansoc philosophy; such as anarcho-collectivism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism, libertarian…