Commentary
What Makes Chelsea Manning a Hero?
Darian Worden: Heroes overcome their flaws to do great things.
The “Internet Kill Switch” Works Both Ways
Kevin Carson on the “internet kill switch”, blogetery, the RIAA, and more.
Authorities Say: Fear Your Kids and Fear Computers
Darian Worden on teen scares and authoritarian society.
“Free Market Capitalism” is an Oxymoron
Kevin Carson: “Both the statist right and the statist left, for their own reasons, equate the ‘free market’ to corporate capitalism, and promote the myth that corporate capitalism as we know it is what would naturally have emerged from a free market absent state intervention to prevent it.”
Dance, Mr. Kohn — But on the Grave of Government Itself
Alex R. Knight III on dancing in Auschwitz.
Homeland Security Mission Creep: “Intellectual Property Crime”
Kevin Carson tackles the fanciful notion of file sharing being a cash cow for Al Qaeda.
What Will Johnny Rotten Do in Israel?
Darian Worden: Support cultural subversion, not cultural boycotts.
Homeland Security Mission Creep: The Drug War
Kevin Carson why, in the Drug War, the enemy is you.
Anarchy Road
Mad Max has no role on the roads of the stateless future that Darian Worden describes.
Homeland Security Mission Creep: Anti-Globalization
Kevin Carson on the suppression of anti-globalist activism under the aegis of counter-terrorism.
Taxation is Theft, and Theft Cannot Be “Reformed”
Alex R. Knight III discusses tax “reform”.
Intellectual Property Eats Itself
Kevin Carson explains why attempts to defend intellectual property inevitably undermine intellectual property.
Almost Getting Away With Murder
Darian Worden on the verdict of the Oscar Grant murder trial.
Costa Rica and Drug War Escalation
Darian Worden: US military intervention in Costa Rica is an escalation of the War over Drugs.
Overthrowing the Government: As American as Apple Pie
Kevin Carson on the topics of July 4th, Chris Matthews historical illiteracy and more.
In the Religion of 100% Americanism, Ignorance is Strength
Kevin Carson critically analyzes Bill Kristol’s stance on Obama’s brinksmanship with Iran.
This is America. We Speak Whatever Language We Dadgum Well Please Here
Kevin Carson: “The idea that there should be some single “official” language in each country is one of the more pernicious things associated with the rise of the modern nation-state.”
New York Times Ignores Bloody Reality
Alex R. Knight III takes issue with an anonymous editorial from the NYT on the topic of gun rights.
The Rising Cost of Evil in a Hyperconnected World
Kevin Carson on “the growing potential of the network revolution for performing, far more vigorously, the functions of the regulatory state.”
The State Will Always Self-Justify
Darian Worden against police state apologists concerning G-20 rioting.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory