What is an anarchist? What practices are libertarian? Which kinds of social arrangements are compatible, and which incompatible, with freedom? These are the kinds of questions that have been debated and written about by anarchists for well over a hundred …
That is, apparently, the view of the Nobel Committee which awarded their peace prize to Barack Obama. How else to explain the fact that these folks can see an american president who is overseeing two full-scale wars, replete with the …
In Libertarian* areas of Spain, individual retail businesses and democratically operated businesses existed in Catalonia and especially in Barcelona.…
What is he thinking? Obama says he wants to pay for his supposed health care reform by cutting reimbursement to hospitals and most health care workers for the care they provide to the neediest people. Sounds like robbing Peter to …
Like the cowardly lion, people just love to be afraid. From bear attacks in Anchorage, to “pandemic” swine flu, to famine caused by a mass die-off of bees, to rampant child abuse and abductions, the news media, the government, and …
During the recent election campaign, much lip service was given by the candidates to fixing the american health care system. The politicians, the experts, and the news analysts discussed various methods of reducing the costs, increasing access, and better utilizing …
“Change has come to America,” according to the new hypocrite-in-chief. But as Obama picks his cabinet and talks about what he wants to do in his new job, it is difficult to see any signs that substantive change is likely. …
It is quite difficult to get people who are used to modern city or suburban life to move into the villages and small towns of bush alaska. While these places have acquired many of the technological features of the rest …
On June 8, 2007, the local newspaper carried a telling story. It was about the experience of a baby moose that was apparently starving to death because it could no longer nurse after its mother had been killed by a …
On a recent trip to the netherlands and belgium, I was struck by the number of items for sale that bore the image of Che Guevara. There were Che t-shirts and Che bags of various sorts available in all the …