Table of Contents Preface This isn’t my first publication, but it is my first publication that I authored entirely. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting was self- published in 2012, myself as editor. It was an anthology of essays introducing the philosophy of voluntaryism in politics, the economy, parenting, and childhood education.(1) These are also…
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Movie View #6, Spooner #14, False Process
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. The more…
Sociology is Finally a Science
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…
Voluntaryism II
Nobody asked but … In any dimension (and there are uncountable instances of them), there is always a clear separateness of any two entities. There is a marker where I stop and you begin. The marker is, in most practical senses, easy to observe. If you and I are standing in a room, within physical…
Voluntaryism
Nobody asked but … Actually, many people do ask, “You call yourself a voluntaryist, so what does that mean?” Good question, and the answer bears repeating! All human interactions should be voluntary — I will take no actions that I do not do willingly, nor will I coerce another to take such actions unwillingly. The…
Voluntaryism 101: A Simple Explanation
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…
Building a Culture of Liberty I: Definitions
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. A free society, where liberty is secure, is necessarily one where you’ll find the widespread observance of the voluntary principle (all human…
Lifelong Learning, Nathaniel Branden, Torture
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. A theme…
Voluntaryism vs. Anarcho-Capitalism
A friend on Facebook asked, “Can someone give me an example of a situation in which a voluntaryist and an ancap could reach different conclusions about something? I’ve been trying to use more precise language and I’d like to have a better understanding of any differences in the meanings of the two terms.” Ancaps don’t…
Nathaniel Brandon, RIP
Nobody asked but … A few days ago, Nathaniel Branden died at thehalfway point of his 85th year. His psychology of self-esteem has been a major influence for me. I didn’t even know about him until I read a biography on Ayn Rand, by Anne Conover Heller, in which the probable affair between Rand and…