In 1268 the Republic of Venice settled on a way to choose its doge that still looks like a puzzle invented to torment students. The Great Council drew thirty of its members by lot. The thirty were cut to nine […]
In 1976 a double-hulled canoe named Hōkūleʻa sailed from Maui to Tahiti, about 2,500 miles, without a compass, a chart, or a sextant. Its navigator was Mau Piailug, from Satawal, a coral island in Micronesia about a mile long with […]
Murray Bookchin died in 2006, believing his politics had mostly failed to find an audience. Twenty years later his idea, that free people should govern themselves in face-to-face assemblies and federate their towns instead of submitting to a state, has […]
Every argument for freedom eventually runs into the same practical objection. If anyone can start a school, a land trust, a clinic, or a cooperative, how is anyone supposed to know which ones are any good? A parent choosing a […]
Historic events usually don't arrive on a date. The numerals Europe counts with didn't have a launch day. Leonardo of Pisa, the mathematician later called Fibonacci, brought the Hindu-Arabic system to Italian merchants in his *Liber Abaci* in 1202, and […]
Three voices. SL speaks for the Social Liberty Foundation. Claude is the AI model that helped draft this piece, given its own lines. 3rd Party is a composite of the country's existing outside parties, fifty years of running […]
Every society keeps a list of its problems. In ours the list is made by whatever gets measured, argued about in public, and funded: housing, crime, inflation, the border, the budget. It's a useful list. It's also incomplete in a […]
No single post on this site was written to be read as a system. Each one starts from something narrower and more provoking — a ballot measure, a zoning fight, a dead anarchist's pamphlet, a tennis tournament's prize structure — and follows the […]
Every institution we deal with — our job, our lease, our culture, our education and training, our government -- has social implications and importance
Every dollar our city government spends comes from We the People. Our property taxes, our sales taxes, our labor. And yet for most people, finding out exactly where that money goes — how we understand and actualize priorities – which […]
Herbert Marcuse from: Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore, Jr., and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), pp. 95-137. THIS essay examines the idea of tolerance in our advanced industrial society. The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, […]
The Libertarian Party (US): a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado, and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The organizers of the party drew inspiration from the works and […]
In grateful response to Hans-Hermann Hoppe 1 Cultivate a sense of Home Stop Mass Immigration 2 Mind your own business Stop attacking, killing and bombing people in foreign countries 3 Let funding return to natural distribution Defund the ruling elites and its intellectual bodyguards 4 Replace Fiat with Cryptocurrency End the FED and all central […]
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