All Posts Tagged With: "Lysander Spooner"
Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist
It was in the early 1970s that I first learned of Lysander Spooner’s ideas. The six volumes of his Collected Works, which were published in 1971 and which I purchased soon thereafter, played an important part in my intellectual development as a voluntaryist. I was the person who in 1976 unearthed Spooner’s essay “Vices Are [...]
24Aug2011 | Carl Watner | 7 comments | ContinuedScott Horton, Lysander Spooner, and Me
Scott Horton interviewed me on Antiwar Radio the other day. The subject: Lysander Spooner and his relevance to our times. Here it is.
21Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWho Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
There have now been many conservative and libertarian books covering the demise of American liberty under the U.S. Constitution, so if you don’t think you need to read another one, I understand. Still, if that’s what you think, you’re wrong. The latest entry in the genre, Thomas Woods and Kevin Gutzman’s Who Killed the Constitution?, [...]
17Jun2009 | Jacob H. Huebert | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Post Office as a Violation of Constitutional Rights
In September 2000, the United States Postal Service (USPS) launched a $12 million campaign to advertise a new Internet service, eBillPay, through which customers could pay their bills electronically. EBillPay is one of several new e-services designed to woo back the growing army of Americans who would rather click a mouse than lick a stamp [...]
1May2001 | Wendy McElroy | 3 comments | ContinuedNullifying the Rule of Law
Mr. Pulliam is an attorney in private practice in San Diego. What do nineteenth-century anarchist Lysander Spooner,[1] the O. J. legal defense team, some elements of the militia movement,[2] the Los Angeles juries that failed to convict the Menendez brothers of murdering their parents and that acquitted the brutal assailants of Reginald Denny, and the [...]
1Mar1996 | Mark S. Pulliam | 2 comments | Continued-
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