Episode 087 welcomes Adam Minson to the podcast for a chat with Skyler. Topics include: working at home, best television shows, government schooling, women and the choice to stay home or work, ADHD, run-ins with police, Ron Paul and libertarianism, government failure, different paths to anarchism, authority and the ruling class, and more.
Tag: libertarian
Thoughts on Internal Values and Instincts
We all want someone who we share values with, and is funny and we can share a good time with. However, I think people often get too clouded by problematic ways of thinking to understand there is something much deeper going on. We haven’t surpassed nature, we won’t, and we can’t.
Hillary Clinton: Cold Creepiness with a Side of Corruption
Was Clinton’s latest lunge at Assange and WikiLeaks a preemptive strike? An attempt, perhaps, to get ahead of extreme ugliness in the coming news cycle?
Alex’s Journey, and Writing Fiction (1h21m) – Episode 085
Episode 085 welcomes Alex Knight, III to the podcast for a chat with Skyler. Topics include: large print books, becoming a fiction writer, his rock bands, growing up in the Northeast United States, his parents, political awareness as a teen, marijuana legalization, Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, Harry Browne, Marc Stevens and his No State Project, thoughts on veganism, dating as an anarchist, libertarian themed short stories, and Netflix recommendations.
Microsoft Corp. v. United States: Jeff Sessions Wants Open Borders, But Only for Police
In 2013, Microsoft refused to turn information from a customer’s email account over to law enforcement pursuant to a warrant in a narcotics investigation. The information, Microsoft noted, was stored on a server in Ireland. Ireland, as you may have learned in elementary school, is neither one of the fifty states nor a US territory. It’s a sovereign state with its own laws. US search warrants carry no weight there.
Danilo Interviews Nelson Chartrand (46m, Spanish) – Peaceful Anarchism 025
Peaceful Anarchism 025 features an interview of Nelson Chartrand, anarcho-capitalist and founder of the Libertarian Party of Cuba, by Danilo Cuellar. Topics include: his journey to anarcho-capitalism, Hayek, Rothbard, Bastiat, Larken Rose, Cuba at present, socialized medicine, imprisonment of freedom lovers, food in Cuba, and much more.
Why Do People Espouse Anarchy?
Because they believe that kindness is better than cruelty, cooperation is better than conflict, truth is better than lies, reason is better than force, honesty is better than deception, peace is better than war…
Is Secession by Referendum Libertarian?
My concerns about group (not individual) secession are over the process of peaceful separation, namely, the referendum. Libertarians have long criticized political democracy — that is, the settling of “public” matters by majority vote either directly or through so-called representatives — as inherently violative of individual rights. By what authority does a majority lord it over a minority? Well, doesn’t this critique apply to referenda on secession?
Libertarian Views on Two Books and a Movie
I have recently, as usual, been bingeing on various dramas and books that have some degree of voluntaryist content. Here are three examples that I would like to recommend to you, dear readers.
Refusing to Recognize This Dangerous Fallacy
This right of exclusion may be exercised at any time for any reason (or no reason), but it does not follow that the property owner has any authority over people simply because they are on his land.