As I have now finished six of the seven Harry Potter books, and am well into the last, I thought I’d remark on two themes that made me smile, one major and one minor. The minor theme that I very much enjoyed was seeing Fred and George Weasley drop out of school and start their…
Tag: order
Forts or Prisons?
One point that might be worth making to the anti-immigration conservatives is that the difference between a border designed to keep people out and a border designed to keep people in is really not all that significant. I have stated in the past that ‘the only real difference between a fort and a prison is…
On Assumptions about Libertarians
There are two assumptions made by non-libertarians about libertarians that bother me: 1) Bastiat nailed this one when he wrote that non-libertarians assume libertarians don’t want things like universal “education,” welfare for the poor, business regulation, and other such things just because they don’t want them provided by the state. And 2) libertarians are okay with…
WoD, WoT, Lies
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. Are you…
Benevolent Government
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
My Confession
Hi, my name is Parrish and I’m addicted to politics. I know it’s not good for me. I know it hurts me and those around me, but for some reason I just can’t seem to quit. For some inexplicable reason I got pulled into the “shutdown” theater and actually allowed myself to hope for one…
Procreation is not Parenting
Send him mail. “Insight for the Young and Unrestrained” is an original column appearing every Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Gregory V. Diehl. Gregory is a writer, musician, educator, and coach for young people at EnabledYouth.com. Archived columns can be found here. IYU-only RSS feed available here. It’s been part of my long-term mission in life…
Crime and Punishment
Send her mail. “Love Perspective” is an original column appearing every other Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Serenity. Serenity is the mother of 4 boys and both a recovering mainstream parent and statist. She seeks to share what she has learned along her journey to voluntaryism, radical unschooling, and living a counter-culture lifestyle. Archived columns can…
On Forced Chemotherapy
What if your daughter were sick and so-called “experts” were telling you that she needed to drink cyanide, but you understood cyanide to be poison, and these experts are foreign to you and your way of life? You don’t know them, their credentials, how or why anyone considers them experts, and they’re telling you that…
MYOB, Imperialism, Income Tax
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 week,…