Editor’s Pick. Written by Jason Brennan. Civil disobedience is one of the easiest topics in political philosophy. Civil disobedience is at base the conscientious decision to break a law on the grounds that it’s unjust. It may or may not be accompanied by active public resistance and displays, a willingness to submit to punishment, attempts…
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Left Libertarian, Right Libertarian
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. You may have heard about the political philosophy known is “left libertarianism.” This philosophy mostly agrees with all of the political…
Libertarianism as Moral Overlearning
Editor’s Pick. Written by Bryan Caplan. If you have a conscience, you should care about moral overlearning. What good is moral “knowledge” if people fail to use it? But the concept is especially pressing for libertarians. Libertarians often argue that they are merely holding governments to ordinary moral standards. It’s wrong for a private individual…
What If, Vicarious Connectivity, More About Information
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. This past…
The Faux Slavery Analogy to Voting
Editor’s Pick. Written by Wendy McElroy. I oppose electoral voting on both moral and strategic grounds. In presenting the Voluntaryist case against electoral voting, however, I commonly encounter the slavery analogy as a counterargument in support of defensive voting. A classic formulation of it comes from Walter Block who argues, “Suppose we were slaves, and…
Myth and Violence
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Non-libertarians are quick to deride libertarians as blaming all of society’s ills on government. Many a libertarian do give knee-jerk reactions…
Ask A Different Question
Editor’s Pick. Written by Liberty. Libertarians are regularly asked questions about how a libertarian country would solve a certain social problem. That whole idea is a bit ridiculous but there is a quick solution to just about everyone of those questions. Questions that are asked are generally leading towards a statist solution. Despite the poor…
The Libertarian Paradox
Editor’s Pick. Written by Llewellyn Rockwell. As libertarians attempt to persuade others of their position, they encounter an interesting paradox. On the one hand, the libertarian message is simple. It involves moral premises and intuitions that in principle are shared by virtually everyone, including children. Do not hurt anyone. Do not steal from anyone. Mind…
The Solemnization of Marriage: Or, My Mom the Felon
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sarah Skwire. The state has a long history of involving itself in the spiritual practices of its citizens. The English Reformation, the time period with which I am the most familiar, is filled with such moments. For example, in 1536 Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s first minister, vicegerent in spirituals and vicar…
There Is No Political Solution
Editor’s Pick. Written by Michael Suede. In the end, there are only technological solutions. That means you don’t have to worry about politics as long as technology keeps progressing. Politics is a problem. Technology finds ways of eliminating problems.. ALL problems. Got a problem moving things? Man invents the wheel. Got a problem adding things?…