Carson: The state is the instrument of armed force by which an economic ruling class extracts rents from the producing majority of a society.

The state’s monopoly on law replaces accountability with victim blaming.

Thomas L. Knapp on the “essential” versus the “non-essential”.

Kevin Carson explains why the “progressive” regulatory state is not an obstacle to monopoly, but its greatest enabler.

Ross Kenyon provides an example of why the most important functions of justice and protection are too important to allow coercive monopolies to provide them.

Darian Worden: What is an essential government service anyway?

Alex R. Knight III explains that government regulation in the name of “net neutrality” is a fraud.

Kevin Carson on politically selective criticism of junk science.

The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once: (1) Ensuring that everyone can afford to buy ample medical services and (2) lowering the price of care while (3) not interfering with our choices. An Unnecessary Tension among Health Care Goals—Created by…