“Toward Freedom” is an Everything-Voluntary.com series sharing personal stories about the journey toward freedom. Archived stories can be found here. Submit your story to the editor. Originally published in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians. Typically, when I say I’m a praxeological austro-paleolibertarian, Rothbardian anarchocapitalist extremist, Hoppean propertarian, and politically incorrect canonist, people say…
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The Power of Non-Violent Resistance
Guest post by Jerry M. Tinker. Originally published in The Voluntaryist, August 1987. As many writers have noted, the basic thesis, or strategy, upon which Gandhi’s satyagraha and all non-violent resistance rests is that all structures of power – government and social organizations – always depend upon the voluntary cooperation of great numbers of people…
Mark Crovelli
“Toward Freedom” is an Everything-Voluntary.com series sharing personal stories about the journey toward freedom. Archived stories can be found here. Submit your story to the editor. Originally published at Voluntaryist.com. While most of my friends would find it difficult to imagine today, I have not always been a loudmouthed, pain-in-the-ass, libertarian anarchist. In fact, if…
Do We Overestimate Our Intelligence?
Guest post by KantLockeMeIn. I’ve always been in love with nature. Growing up I spent my time in the woods and as I have grown older, I choose to spend my vacations in the mountains rather than at resorts. I’m the unapologetic conservationist who values raw nature. But that statement would lead most people to…
Markets Make Us Smarter and Better
Guest post by Isaac Morehouse. Airlines are loaded with passengers who surf the Internet while soaring through the air, chatting in real-time to anyone else on the globe, posting in social media, shopping, and downloading and reading books on a wide variety of readers. Such a scene would have astonished a person living 50 years…
The Liberty Movement: What Now?
Ron Paul has officially dropped out of the race for those who live under a rock and/or are attending college for a ministry degree.I was left unsurprised and shocked at the same time. Many of my libertarian brethren told me that there is still hope and that we should continue fighting for what we believe in.…
When does Guidance become Manipulation?
Guest post by Jan Hunt. Many homeschooling parents have puzzled over the distinction between “guidance” and “manipulation”. As a parent strongly committed to “unschooling” (learner-directed homeschooling) with my son Jason, now 17, I have sometimes wondered if I should encourage certain activities in spite of a lack of interest on his part, or at least…
Jesus Christ, Pirate
Guest post by Kevin Carson. After reportedly feeding a crowd of five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, Jesus Christ of Nazareth was recently served with formal legal notice from industry trade associations, demanding that he cease and desist from what they charge is an illegal food-sharing operation under the terms of the Miracle…
Droughts, Famines, and Markets
Guest post by Steven Horwitz. As I write, many high school students all over the United States, my daughter included, are reading John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, with its portrayal of the 1930s Dust Bowl, in preparation for literature courses in the fall. Steinbeck’s fictional account vividly captures the suffering endured by many Americans…
Next Project: Everywhere Stateless
Writes Skyler Collins: I’ve finalized my list of essays for my next book project. It will be titled Everywhere Stateless – Imagining a Free Society. It will mimic the style and formatting of my first book, Everything Voluntary. I consider it a second volume in the Everything-Voluntary.com series. I’ve begun putting it all into book…