Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Three – Chapter 16 – “Agorist Living” by Nicholas Hooton Free Market Resources Books Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt“A million copy seller, [this book] is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern [free market] economics of the type…
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Kony 2012: A Call For Rationality
I’m sure several of you have seen this video at least once. I feel the need to address this due to its popularity. If you haven’t seen it, I suggest you do so (even if you disagree with it). It’s very well done. It’s so well done that I, in fact, supported an actual military…
Re: Detroit Residents Privatize Law Enforcement
I think this is absolutely fantastic. I’d like to see it spread. Less police means less “isolated incidents” means less spending means less taking (taxes) means society is wealthier means society will spend it’s greater sum of money better means prosperity will rise means the economy will grow, on top of the spiritual benefits of…
Re: A Moral Challenge
I am getting increasingly frustrated because so very few seem to comprehend my moral argument that taxation is theft. Even members of my own family don’t seem to get it. It appears to me that there are two components to the argument that taxation is theft.First is the moral argument: If you define theft as…
Government Laid Bare
The true nature of Government laid bare in one masterful paragraph… It is time now to bring the State into our discussion. The State is a group of people who have managed to acquire a virtual monopoly of the use of violence throughout a given territorial area. In particular, it has acquired a monopoly of…
Bah Humbug to The Christmas Carol
December’s finally here and I’ve been waiting to post this. We’re all familiar with the classic story The Christmas Carol, and how “evil” Ebeneezer Scrooge is. 2 years ago I shared on my Truth blog an essay by Butler Shaffer that completely changed my opinion of this story. Here’s what I posted then: I couldn’t believe…
In an Ideal Nation
Every person should be free to pursue his ambition to the full extent of his abilities, regardless of race or creed or family background. to associate with whom he pleases for any reason he pleases, even if someone else thinks it’s a stupid reason. to worship God in his own way, even if it isn’t…
Re: Youth vs. Teenager
Guest post by Carl Uhl. Skyler, in Butler Shaffer’s book “Boundaries of Order”, he made similar comparisons regarding teenagers and how they act when they are finally permitted to exercise some semblance of control over their lives. Following is an excerpt from “Boundaries or Order” available in .pdf format from Mises.org It has become commonplace…
Origin of Everything-Voluntary
Post by Skyler J. Collins. Alright so, I’ve started this website and listed out the topics I’d like it to cover, all really without any explanation of how they relate or why I believe they’re all important. Let’s do that. Once-upon-a-time, I was what I consider now to be a Socialist-Democrat. I was a “teenager”…
Government is Force
Some pundits really don’t understand why libertarians dislike government and therefore want it to do little, if anything at all. Unable to grasp the reason, the pundits assign bad motives to those who disparage government: They don’t like poor people, or workers, or the sick, or education. But what’s so hard to understand?