Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Two – Chapter 8 – “The Historical Origins of Voluntaryism” by James Luther Adams 9 For Conscience’s Sake by Carl Watner George Smith, in his essay “Philosophies of Toleration,’’ reviews the history of freedom of religion and identifies the moral axiom of “righteous persecution,” which has been part of most…
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Chapter 1 – Persuasion versus Force
Table of ContentsPrevious – Introduction 1 Persuasion versus Force by Mark Skousen & Jo Ann Skousen Sometimes a single book or even a short cogent essay can change an individual’s entire outlook on life. For Christians, it is the New Testament. For radical socialists, Karl Marx’ and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto is revolutionary. For…
The Fear Instinct in Early Childhood
A most interesting and enlightening lecture by Boris Sidis in 1919. Here’re the emphasized excerpts: “The child is regarded as a sort of a little beast, a kind of young ape, at best a little savage. The child, accordingly, is trained to act not by the light of reason, but by the command of superior…
True Education
This post is a critique of the school system and the way I see it. It’s not necessarily an endorsement of homeschooling, but it’s pretty close. This entire thing was actually inspired by a few people telling me about their massive debts from student loans and my observations of people around me. I went to a charter…
Re: A Voluntaryist Pledge Of Allegiance
August Wagele nailed it, “I pledge allegiance to liberty and justice for all.” Done.
A Voluntaryist Pledge Of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the sovereign individual, and to the freedom for which it stands, no nation, under no one, independent, with liberty and justice for all.
80 Years in a Cage
For a $20 fraud. This is not, and cannot be considered justice. Coercivist institutions, ie. the state, have a history of greater and greater abuses of justice. On these merits alone, they should be rejected forthwith. Justice here would have been at most $40 paid to the theatre and his name tarnished in the local…