It is one of thousands of cases where one group of people wants to live differently than the way in which another group of people forces them to live. In this case, those who were not allowed to live as they wanted have now been given the choice to vote their way to freedom. Low and behold, 99% of the people chose to live differently.

[Free Life: The Journal of the Libertarian Alliance, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1984)]

[First published in Inquiry, 3, 13 (July 7 & 21, 1980), pp. 16–20.]

A curious thing is happening in this extraordinary election year. The liberals are beginning to adjust to Ronald Reagan. After all, they claim, he’s getting more moderate, he’ll have to shift to the center to win the election, and he was a moderate and “flexible” governor of California for eight years. Maybe he won’t be that bad, certainly not as erratic as Carter.

Here is a wonderful video demonstrating the possibilities of a voluntary society. See V for Voluntary for more videos by Niels.

[This article is excerpted from The Tariff History of the United States (2010). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Brad O’Connell, is available for download.]

Higgs’s book is that rare and wondrous combination: scholarly and hard-hitting, lucidly written and libertarian as well.

So wonderful to see Tom embrace this medium.

I say I’m nosy, my wife says I’m bitter. She’s probably right. Regardless, our township contracts out residential refuse and garbage removal. All residents are required to pay for the service, whether they use it or not. The current contract was about to end so the township sent it out for bid.

Since I am nosy (my view), I wanted to see what recycling nonsense is in the official legal notice to bidders. So I made a public records request for the legal notice and similar documents.