Journal
A look into the philosophies of my mind.
Voices of Freedom: A History of Libertarian & Anarchist Thinkers
The history of civilization is usually told as the history of states: the rise of empires, the reigns of kings, and the expansion of borders. But running beneath [...]
John Locke
John Locke (1632–1704) is the single most important philosopher in the libertarian tradition. He did not invent the ideas of self-ownership, natural rights, or the right of revolution [...]
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895) was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, escaped to freedom at the age of twenty, and became the most powerful voice [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and abolitionist who founded the Transcendentalist movement, shattered the authority of institutional religion in American intellectual life, and [...]
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American essayist, philosopher, naturalist, and abolitionist whose single night in jail for refusing to pay taxes produced one of the most [...]
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu (c. 6th century BCE) was an ancient Chinese philosopher and the legendary founder of Taoism. Murray Rothbard called him "the first libertarian intellectual" — a thinker [...]
As She Lit the Smoking Gun
On the nature of authority and the belief that sustains itI was standing outside with a friend while she smoked a cigarette. Not an ordinary cigarette — one [...]
State: The First Aggressor
On borders, immigration, enforcement and the claim to authority Few topics generate as much heat and as little light as immigration. It is a subject that divides [...]
A State: The Unexamined Premise
On the Assumed Necessity of the State I find it interesting how most people, when discussing politics, begin with the assumption that a state is necessary or [...]
The State Isn’t the Solution to State-Created Problems
The Problem It is becoming increasingly obvious that there is a coordinated push to get nations to adopt centralised digital currencies in the form of CBDCs. To many, [...]
From Political Party to Privacy Infrastructure
Why I Build Instead of Campaign They asked me to delete the tweet. It was 2021, and I was working with a political party in Ireland. I'd [...]
They’re Building the Control Grid. Here’s How We Stop It.
Digital ID is coming. Not in some distant dystopian future—it's being rolled out right now across Europe, the UK, and beyond. Governments call it "modern infrastructure." Privacy advocates [...]
The Immorality of Voting
Why Participation in State Elections Is Participation in Aggression Introduction: The Question Plainly Stated Modern politics survives on a linguistic sleight of hand. When private people do [...]
The Solution in South Africa is Less Government, Not More
On sovereignty, self-defence, and the state as proxy I was recently asked a question by a rather intelligent German power engineer, during a conversation about the socio-political problems [...]