Commentary
Election 2012: Oil’s Well That Ends Welfarish
Knapp: Drilling leases on “public” land are just food stamps for Big Oil.
Capitalism: Pharaoh’s Dream
Carson: We’re approaching victory in the five-thousand-year war between natural abundance and artificial scarcity.
The Elements of Empire
D’Amato: The free competition that market anarchists advocate for is entirely opposed to that system.
DARPA Funding Hackerspaces? Not to Worry
Carson: The rentiers’ last-ditch plan can’t work.
Rapists on Patrol
Goodman: “Serve and protect?” Not so much.
Inequality: The Points Lindsey is Missing
Knapp: There’s a poison pill in “equality of outcome” schemes.
The Inherent Perversity of Social Change through Electoral Means, Venezuelan Edition
Alan Furth on how democracy, at best, alleviates the symptoms of social disease — but never cures its fundamental cause.
The 47% Don’t Pay Taxes? Think Again, Mittens
Carson: Who depends on whom?
Election 2012: Mitt Romney’s “Free Economy”
Knapp: The difference between a free economy and an un-free economy IS government — i.e. top-down, hierarchic, uniform, centralized — regulation.
Primitive Accumulation in the News
Kevin Carson: Why are they doing it? Because they’re afraid of us.
The Joke of Democratic Accountability
Carson: The only real way to achieve social justice is by bypassing the state.
The Regulatory State — Behind the Myth
Carson: The regulators don’t work for you.
The Fractionated Society of the State
D’Amato: Libyans ought to oppose not any particular political ideology or regime, but the state itself.
Reconsidering Redistribution: One Libertarian’s View
David D’Amato on what goes up.
Election 2012: Neither Candidate Has Anything to Fear from the Real “Entitlement” Class
Jason Lee Byas: Who’s really dependent on government?
Election 2012: The Real Lesson of Ballot Access Battles
Knapp: They’re desperate. And they should be.
The Death of the Death of a Thousand Cuts
Knapp: There’s only one way to cut the size and cost of government … off with its head!
Ephemeralization: A Weapon Against Capital
Carson: A free market … will eliminate — or socialize — the majority of exchange value in the economy and drive the average rate of profit much closer to zero.
Election 2012: The Banality of Hyperbole
Knapp: The hype has gotten so outrageous that it’s frankly becoming a huge tiresome bore.
On Breaking Your Legs and Giving You Crutches: Responses to a Liberal
Carson: The common thread running through the left-libertarian response is that most of the evils currently remedied by the state result from state intervention in the first place.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory