Illegal Cities
Life among the Third World's squatters
A huge annual gathering of hippies freaks out the National Forest Service
Thoreau's view on civil disobedience-exemplified by his tax resistance-influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. But who influenced Thoreau?
He helped found National Review; now he calls himself an anarchist. He wrote speeches for Goldwater's presidential bid; now he publishes a survival newsletter. Karl Hess talks about the Old Right, the New Right, and what's right.
The world remembers him as a poet and playwright-but Oscar Wilde was also something of a libertarian reformer.
A controversial anarchist talks about government, the Libertarian Party, Ayn Rand, and the evolution of his own ideas.
Three of early socialism's five key thinkers opposed the use of State power.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
A brief history of the modern libertarian movement
Optimism gives the technocrats no reason to plan for anything, while pessimism gives them sufficient reason to plan for everything.
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