Commentary
A Note on Magic Words and Secret Formulas
Thomas L. Knapp explains that the state can not be rendered tame and obedient by invoking obscure legal doctrines.
Statists Don’t Get It
Darian Worden says things are best when we don’t work through government plans.
Capitalism: A Good Word For A Bad Thing
Kevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.
Count, Dracula
Thomas L. Knapp on the U.S. census.
Obama and Liz Cheney: Separated at Birth?
Kevon Carson: “Before she can organize a necktie party, Liz may have to get in line behind Obama’s own justice department.”
Governments Persecute, Not Protect
Alex R. Knight III on the Chicago handgun law case before the US Supreme Court and the questions it raises.
The Copyright Nazis: Destroying “Intellectual Property” Rights in Order to Save Them
Kevin Carson on IP advocates stooping to incoherent self-contradiction.
Serf Farming
Darian Worden on the intersection of corporate and government power.
Ford’s in His Flivver, All’s Well with the World
Keith Olbermann once ridiculed a Republican politician who, in a video clip from a “townhall meeting,” told a woman with a paralyzed husband and no health insurance that the proper first line of defense was neighbors helping each other. Now, admittedly, that politician was exactly the kind of right-wing shill who uses Norman Rockwell imagery…
“Intellectual Property” is Not Progressive
Kevin Carson: “Intellectual property” is the linchpin, the keystone in the arch, of global corporate power.
Sturm und Drang und Stack
Thomas L. Knapp on the response of the political class to Joe Stack.
The Imminent Demise of Government
Alex R. Knight III loves the stats.
Marching Orders
Darian Worden: You can demand real changes all you want, but don’t neglect the direct action of making real changes.
The Digital Copying Glass is Half Full
Kevin Carson explains that the notion that intellectual property somehow protects “the little guy” is a fraud.
I.R.S. Blowback
Alex R. Knight III on the recent kamikaze attack in Austin.
R.A. Wilson: Optimist?
Kevin Carson points out that we’re already in Wilson’s dystopia.
Away from the Sinking Ship of State
Thomas L. Knapp on Evan Bayh’s retirement and more: “Ladies and gentlemen, America is in a state of incipient revolution.”
Colin Ward, RIP
Kevin Carson remembers Colin Ward.
Looking Forward To Liberty
Darian Worden on Tea Parties and directions to liberty.
So-Called Free Trade Agreements are to Free Trade, as the Ministry of Love is to Love
Kevin Carson discusses the sham that is neo-liberalism.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory