Voluntary Society

Secession misses the point

Secession, as a means to anarchy, misses the point.   Peaceful secession is simply a rearrangement of the political structure to one that is...
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Liberty pioneers: showing the world how to live without…

Libertarians living off tax money is unethical, but it’s an even bigger practical problem. It shows that living without the government teat is impossible, that...
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Ethics of receiving government money

I had a couple of objections to my argument that living off the government is unethical. First, if accepting a government wage is unethical,...
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Human nature: liberty or tyranny?

If liberty is human nature, then we should see humanity in a state of liberty.  It is not in a state of liberty, but...
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“Blood and Soil” Libertarianism: A Response to Jeff Deist

Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, gave a talk this week, pushing libertarians into alt-right nationalism.  His talk is a confused mess and is...
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WANTED: Liberty entrepreneurs

Money is a dirty word in the liberty movement.  Ironic, for a pro-free-market and free trade ideology.  But when theory becomes reality, many recoil...
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The 4 steps to political freedom

1. Philosophy – Your foundational ideology should be coherent and correspond to political reality; these are contradictory aims.  Yet the dialectical process between these...
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Taxation is extortion

Explain the difference. #TaxationIsTheft #TaxationIsExtortion #TaxesAreTheft
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The practical failure of libertarians (and what to do…

I was floored by the sheer inanity of Walter Block going back on his word to disband “Libertarians for Trump” after the convention.  This nonsensical...
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