In a recent article in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, Peter Salib seeks to critique the current prison system in the United States from an economic standpoint and suggest some desired features of an alternative system. Though neither the critique nor the alternative are anarchist in nature, there is still much to be learned and possibly some contributions we can offer. The arguments against the current system are fairly standard yet in depth and insightful. The most significant one is the problem of restitution and wealth transfer. When a crime is committed, the state receives money...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...
Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...