Lex mercatoria, or the “Law Merchant,” refers to the privately produced, privately adjudicated, and privately enforced body of customary law that governed virtually every aspect of commercial transactions by the end of the 11th century. Thus, the Law Merchant provides...
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News Roundup 8/25/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | News Roundup
US News In July, a Denver police officer saw a man in a crowd carrying a gun. A group of cops responded by opening fire, injuring six people. Rather than addressing the police officers who fired on a group of innocent people, the city has responded by restricting...

A Conversation with Keith Knight and Dave Smith on The Voluntaryist Handbook
by Connor Freeman | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
Keith Knight, our Managing Editor and host of the Don't Tread On Anyone podcast, went on Dave Smith's Part of the Problem to discuss Keith's new book (Amazon's #1 bestseller in anarchism!) The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes. Keith...

The FBI Was Always This Bad; Ruby Ridge Turns 30
by Jim Bovard | Aug 24, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the wake of the massive raid at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, politicians and pundits are hectoring Americans to blindly trust the FBI. “The men and women of the FBI,” Attorney General Merrick Garland proclaimed, “are dedicated, patriotic public servants.” But...
Where Is the Anarchism in HBO’s ‘The Anarchists’?
by Tom Mullen | Aug 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
I had the opportunity last week to watch the sixth and final episode of the HBO documentary, The Anarchists. Director and executive producer Todd Schramke accomplished the primary mission of any good documentary filmmaker: he made an interesting miniseries about...
There Are Now More Armed Bureaucrats Than There Are U.S. Marines
by John Whitehead | Aug 23, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition in recent years, including 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles and 15...
Lessons From the Rape of Nanking
by Kym Robinson | Aug 22, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
The "Rape of Nanking" is a high watermark of imperial savagery, even in the context of the violent and brutal Japanese Empire. This frenzy of rape and genocide was committed against a Chinese populace after their government abandoned the city and the international...
Here’s What Fernando Tesón Misunderstands About Murray Rothbard
by David Gordon | Aug 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In his valuable article “War and Humanitarian Intervention,” in The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism (pp. 441–56), Fernando R. Tesón raises some interesting criticisms of Murray Rothbard’s views on war as part of a more general discussion of the topic, and I’d...
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Defund Government Money to Think Tanks That Don’t Think
A 2022 document. In service of the green agenda, the RANDians have lost their minds...again. Stop funding the RAND Corporation; zero out all government funding to it. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA1500/RRA1524-2/RAND_RRA1524-2.pdf My...
Labor as Commodity
For the individual actor, "as for everyone, other people’s labor as offered for sale on the market is nothing but a factor of production. Man deals with other people’s labor in the same way that he deals with all scarce material factors of production. He appraises it...
WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Debuts Soon
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in...
Failing Upward: PR Stunt Backfires
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos...
Why We Need to End the Federal Reserve System
A new short documentary from the Mises Institute explains how the Federal Reserve system enslaves us all.
The Shame of Veterans Day
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the...
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