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What’s In a Name

Written by Christophe Cieters. Curiously, there are no Western socialists marching in the streets to give their own property away to starvation-stricken Africans that happen to live outside the...

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Lay Siege to the Therapeutic State

Written by Sterlin Lujan. People should fight to abolish what Thomas Szasz called the “Therapeutic State.” What is it? The Therapeutic State is the marriage of government and psychiatry. Government is...

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Why I Am An Anarchist

Written by Danilo Cuellar. The forest is nothing without the trees. If it is harmful to the individual, it is harmful to society. It is not a Free Market Economy vs. a Mixed Economy or Command...

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METAmarket Whitepaper

Whitepaper written by Marc Wood. Introduction METAmarket uses two party escrow directly between buyer and seller with no third party. In our system the buyer and vendor agree to a dispersal ratio...

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Book Review: For Your Own Good, A Reflection of Child Abuse and the Resulting...

Written by Sterlin Lujan. Insight into childhood and how early trauma affects adulthood is an important facet of psychology for me—one of the most important.  I had not previously considered all of...

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The War Prayer

Written by Mark Twain. It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands...

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Why Do People Commit Crime?

Written by Justin and is a re-publication of his work from his website LibertyHangout.org. Every time we turn on the news, we are consumed with outrageous stories of people committing violent crimes....

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The Holy State

Written by Alexander Munro Smith. It sucks you in and locks your gaze, It melts your mind in foggy haze. Vapidly you cast your eyes As rapidly you’re mesmerized. That two-dimensional scene you see...

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The Profit of the Internet

Written by Winter Trabex. The global economy is a funny place. With everyone interacting with each other, it becomes possible for all kinds of trades to happen. Japan, a country that has to rely...

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Pot is Good, Bourbon for Breakfast is Gross

Jeffrey Tucker, the hard-voting, Rand Paul loving, bow tie-wearing anarchist recently published an anti-cannabis piece titled, “Pot is Gross.” In the article, he articulated his distaste for weed. He...

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The Super Scary Halloween Revolt

In the last couple of days, the media has been absolutely freaking out over what would otherwise sound like the plot to a bad action move. It’s called “The Halloween Revolt.” The script goes something...

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The Hardest Pill To Swallow

I come from a military family. Every generation for well over 100 years has entered the military. I myself am a second generation Marine grunt. My father spent 2.5 years of his life in South Vietnam....

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On Censorship, Control, and Crypto

Written by Pete Eyre. The level of tyranny self-proclaimed rulers are able to exert depends directly on the generalized tolerance of their edicts and actions. The perceived legitimate “right” of those...

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Border-Line Madness: The Art of Not Being Boxed in

By Sterlin Lujan and Daniel Hawkins. As American bombs ravage the Middle East, terrorists initiate counterattacks, and whole nations descend into a desperate wild panic, some “anarchists” and...

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Money: Keep the Change

Written by Christophe Cieters. Let’s say a farmer has a few cows. After a hard day in the field, he feels like getting a drink at the local tavern to discuss current events with his friends who will...

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The Plight of the Counter-Economist

Written by Winter Trabex. As authoritarians the world over attempt to gain increasing control of the various local economies for which they pretend to be responsible, one strange fact emerges: the...

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How Did We Get Here?

Written by Phillip Corbin. Maybe we got to this place because the government has a long history of telling us it will implement a small program with a reasonable sounding purpose. Then when the...

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Libertarians, Boobies, and All That Other Stuff

Written by Winter Trabex. As a woman- admittedly as a transgender woman in the middle of a gender transition- I have for some time watched with curious fascination the debate that has sprung up around...

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Upon The Modern American State

Submitted by J. A. McDonald. “A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master in a number of years.” -Lysander Spooner I remember a few years ago, when people still had some...

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Voters Have “Fascist” Propensities

Written by Jaimine Bezboznik. In his superb analysis of democracy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe observes that “prime ministers and presidents are selected for their proven efficiency as morally uninhibited...

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