In expectation of having my time wasted dealing with criminals, any time I go to court I come armed with a short read on political theory to work up a little bit of fury toward the system before they proceed

Under the influence of youthful idealism, the idea of anarchism is easy to entertain on an admittedly emotional level. We're surrounded by authority early on, from what is perceived to be a rule by our

There's no such thing as "gay rights", nor "women's rights", "black rights", etc. Ok, maybe I was trying to be controversial to get your attention. I can already hear the

Anarchism > Statism Capitalism > Socialism Private Property > "Public property" Competition > Monopoly Voluntarism > Involuntarism Individualism > Collectivism Non-aggression

I would like to make a brief overview of the economics of subsidies, mostly from the position of the person who doesn't consume the products that subsidies are alleged to benefit, but first, to quickly

Libertarianism is a political philosophy strictly concerned with forming a legal theory of when the use of violence is just and moral or when it is criminal. It is criminal when it is aggressive violence;

Doing my part for liberty this past year, I handed out fifty copies of Henry Hazlitt's timeless Economics in One Lesson in hopes it would turn people away from government economic intervention, i.e.,

There's perhaps no more revered institution in America than the beloved defense monopoly, more affectionately known as "the military." No other area of government is more likely to offend Americans

The 45th President of the United States will be Donald J. Trump. In what was hailed as a "historical election", the seventy-year-old billionaire real estate mogul will succeed Obama to the throne

Our world is unfortunately one of property expropriators, called "governments", pretending to represent the best interests of "their" own people, while perfectly operating for the benefit

All political philosophy, whether in disagreement or not, is concerning the issue of property. Some may espouse private-ownership (capitalism) or collective-ownership (communism), or some mix of the two

"The Political Means" The tale of the mix of power and market is an interesting one, complicated in that the socialists argue both ways, adjusting for convenience as necessary. There is the old

As is typical of me these days, I engaged in a political debate over the bar top a few nights ago, which prompted me to elaborate a response in writing. Argumentation had failed, and, remaining unpersuaded,

Ignoring the philosophy itself, one line that consistently arises in debate over the practicality of anarchism, alongside defending the apparent wizardry of government-roads or schools, is the pressure

It would seem as if a significant chunk of the population has finally seen through the ethical and economic fallacies of government that they have so successfully propagated and sustained for so long to

There is only one thing socialists could possibly mean by claiming that a given good or service of another human is a "right", be it healthcare, education, food, or the near-endless list of what

Anyone who recalls the 20th Century horrors of anarchism knows that we need a State to assure none of those things can happen. Since we cannot allow these things to exist, and must remain prudently aware

I wasted a minute of my life and sanity to search the Presidential "debate", just to see what our future-rulers have in store for us; I lasted no longer. But before I could shut off the political

If "the State is us" and "taxation is voluntary", as socialists from the "left and right" alike tell us, then why is it that: there is no opt-out provision of this "social

Civil Liberties What's to say here? It’s easy to push the “socially liberal” line; many are. Really, I use this point to demonstrate that if "liberals", the modern, leftist version of the word,