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Free Speech Needs Decentralization

Governments are attacking free speech and privacy hard these days. We’ve got horrifying anti-speech laws in the U.K., Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, and threats coming from governments all around that people who create platforms that make privacy accessible to regular people will be blamed and jailed for the actions of others.

We even have a Vice Presidential candidate here in the U.S. who has said, “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.”

There are all kinds of problems with these actions, and people need to fight back to hold onto their free speech rights and privacy.

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Appearance on Spoken Words in New Mexico

One of the things I’m working on to promote libertarian values is working with the Free New Mexico Party, the state’s affiliate for the National Libertarian Party.

I’m the Vice Chair and the Secretary, and last week I sat down with the Chair, Dereck Scott, on the great web show Spoken Words in New Mexico.

You can find the show here, and I recommend checking out their other content, as well!

Dereck and I speak for over three hours about the difficulties facing the liberty movement in the U.S., including our worries about both Republican and Democratic policies.

Might as well plug the party website while I’m here, so:

https://freenewmexico.org

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Economics Political Video Link

Murphy and Newman on MMT

Very quick post here, but as a part of Mises University, the great Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman did a fantastic talk about Modern Monetary Theory and some of the sticking points people walk into when they try to argue against it.

At the end of the talk, Dr. Newman mentions the book “The Theory of Idle Resources” by William H. Hutt. What he didn’t say is that the whole book is available free at the Mises Institute website.

Get your copy here!

Breaking down the fallacies and dangerous conclusions of MMT is one of the best things you can do today!

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MMT: Feeding the Economically Inferior Machine

I am pleased to say that the Mises Institute has published another one of my essays! This time, it’s an essay that organizes and crystallizes my thoughts about Modern Monetary Theory, specifically the negative effects of moving goods from the private sphere to the public sphere.

Find it at the Mises Institute website here.

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Philosophy Political Video Link

What’s Missing in Liberty Messaging?

Just some thoughts about liberty messaging. It’s widely available and usually free. You can find pro-liberty commenters across the whole spectrum, from hardcore anarchists to relatively soft and cuddly pro-freedom voices.

Yet less than one person in a hundred actually is convinced.

Why?

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Economics Video Link

Murray Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression, Chapter 1, Part 2

It continues, on a reasonable time scale!

Welcome to the second part of my tutorial/study guide on Murray Rothbard’s seminal book, America’s Great Depression.

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The Conditions of Political Consent

I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of consent from a political perspective. It’s easy to simply call every bit of the state evil and coercive, but it doesn’t seem to convince a lot of people.

So, the thing I’m trying to understand is, what does the average person–not a hardcore anarchist–think of when they envision political consent? Where is the line between a voluntary government and a coercive state? Where is the line between dissidence and withdrawal of consent?

In the video above, I consider a few examples that I’ve seen in popular culture as well as a few of my own devising and try to reach some conclusions.

See my notes for this video here.

This video is available on Odysee and BitChute.

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The Inherent Instability of the Long March

I’ve been having a lot of fun lately thinking about the boundaries between a coercive state and a voluntary government. A recent article by Wanjiru Njoya over at the Mises Institute threw me into a bit of a rabbit hole and I thought I’d set down some of my thoughts in a video.

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A Positive Feedback Loop of Power-Grabbing

Check out my latest article over at the Tenth Amendment Center, examining the fundamental idea by Locke that “it is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases.”

This simple idea, and our failure to keep our government accountable to it, is the root of many of the problems we’re dealing with today.

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Economics Philosophy Science

Libertarian Thoughts on Hydrogen

Technology is a lot like policy: the good analyst looks at the short and long term issues and the primary and secondary and less obvious effects.

I recently heard someone blurt out that hydrogen is the solution to our energy problems on a libertarian-tangent show, and it was bugging me, so a bit of a rant.

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