Non-Secular: The State as God in Civil Religion
The concept of Civil Religion is relatively new on the scale of human history, as are many of its features. It is most frequently applied to the 20th century communist regimes in China and the Soviet...
View ArticleThe Real America: Executive Power, Foreign Policy, and a Domestic Police State.
***This article was inspired by a conversation among friends and family during a recent gathering. Naturally, the conversation geared towards political matters, and while there was some early...
View ArticleA Truly Human Society
Friend and fellow Freedom Writer from A Veresapien’s Blog has started another blog based around the possibility of a ‘truly human’ or truly voluntary society existing...
View ArticlePracticing Political Pacifism: The Immorality of Voting.
Up until recently, I had never missed a political election that I was eligible to vote in (to be fair, I’m only 20). Philosophically, I’ve considered myself to be what some call a “voluntaryist” for...
View ArticleEconomics in One Lesson – Henry Hazlitt – A Short Discussion
Reviewing Mises U 2013 Required Reading List: Part I “Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be...
View ArticleStatism and Liberty – Applying the Message
When writing about current events from the libertarian anarchist point of view, whether politically, Geo-politically, or even rhetorically focused, a difficulty arises....
View ArticleDishwashers and Root Beer: The Case Against Public Goods
You may have noticed that The Humane Condition articles have been sparse over these past summer months. This is in no doubt, partially due to my summer job working as an assistant chef. However, my...
View ArticleThe Civil Rights Acts and Individual Liberty
The succession of Civil Rights Acts through the 1960’s in the United States is often considered a watershed moment in American history. In general these Bills that became Law are seen as major...
View ArticleVoluntaryist ‘Veresapien’ James with an Impeccable Defense of Private Property
This article is reprinted from the Veresapiens and Truly Human Society blog dedicated to Concurrent Voluntaryism. A clear and easy to read common sense defense of property rights with solid...
View ArticleThe Furious Libertarian
The Furious Libertarian Founded by Contributing Editor and Writer for the Humane Condition Will Shanahan, The Furious Libertarian is great reading. Check it out… “The Furious Libertarian” is a project...
View ArticleChrist’s Mad Vicar: The Hilarious Pope Francis
I’ve been avoiding nearly all news media recently. Two days ago I made the decision to check out what was going on. The previous couple days have been a nauseating venture back into the hypocritical,...
View ArticleThe Joe Rogan Experience with Peter Schiff
I’m really impressed with Rogan’s questions, he debated Schiff pretty well. If Schiff had a better understanding of property rights he would have been better at refuting some of Joe’s environmental...
View ArticleFreedom and Democracy: Oil and Water
Most western states have some type of a democratic republican form of a government. These types of governments rely on democratic elections to appoint the leaders of the republic. Few people take the...
View ArticleThe Essence of Liberty: Property Rights and Non Aggression
It is a sad truth that many Westerners have never critically investigated libertarian political theory. Volumes upon volumes have been written explaining, describing, arguing, and expanding on...
View ArticleIn Defense of Sweatshops and Child Labor: A Response to the “Sweat Free”...
Critics of sweatshop labor often accuse sweatshops of providing inhumane conditions and inadequate pay to the workers. Anti-sweatshop activists take several different modes of action in order to try...
View ArticleThe Decolonization of African Psychiatry: A Theoretical Revolution
This essay is certainly off-topic in regards to the Humane Condition’s usual content, but it is a matter that I have been studying for the past several weeks that I think many of you will find...
View ArticleThe Power of Non-Aggression, Conscientious Objection, and a Heroic Woman
Originally posted on Give Me Liberty:Seriously Suggested Reading: This is the transcript of a speech given by a friend of mine who is in the process of conscientious objection. Jessica gave up her...
View ArticlePower and Market, Chapter 1 Section 1
Originally posted on Give Me Liberty:My goal here is to condense Power and Market into a series of short posts that allows you all to absorb the valuable information it contains, in a time saving...
View ArticlePower and Market, Chapter 1 Section 2
Originally posted on Give Me Liberty:Power and Market “Let us, then examine in a little more detail what a free-market defense system might look like.” Having demonstrated the failures of the...
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