The Curious Case of Net Neutrality
Everyone please welcome Insula Qui, our first additional writer at Zeroth Position. Last week, many libertarians came out in support of a major government program. This would seem odd to many...
View ArticleThirteen Observations on Events in Charlottesville
On the weekend of August 12, 2017, various activist groups came together in Charlottesville, Va. for the Unite the Right rally organized by James Kessler and Richard Spencer. A torch-lit march to the...
View ArticleHow To Rein In Censorious Technology Giants
Over the past decade, the large technology companies of Silicon Valley have transitioned from a mindset of attempting to make government censorship impossible to a mindset of attempting to make...
View ArticleOn Immigration and Outlawry
By any objective measure, the immigration system in the United States is a joke. Current estimates find at least 11 million illegal aliens living in and working in the United States. There is a...
View ArticleWhy Price Gouging Is Good
When a natural disaster strikes, it is almost guaranteed that there will be yet another uproar about price gouging. Media pundits will take to the airwaves to virtue signal against people who would...
View ArticleThe Ethical Notions Of Personhood And Savagery
This article expands upon an essay found in Libertarian Reaction. A fundamental fixture of Christian values is the inherent sanctity of life. Christian values are at the basis of all modern Western...
View ArticlePrivatizing State Security
The title of this article is an intentional contradiction. Not only is the modern state a coercive body that initiates and sustains itself through violence (thereby lying through its teeth about...
View ArticleTwelve Observations On The Catalonia Independence Vote
On September 6, the government in Catalonia announced that it was going to hold a vote on October 1 to decide whether the region should secede from Spain and become a nation-state unto itself in the...
View ArticleThe Case For Judicial Corporal Punishment
The modern penal state is geared towards keeping its prisoners institutionalized, which is to say totally conditioned to the rhythms, desires, and goals of the penal state itself. This process supports...
View ArticleEliminate The Debt Ceiling
The United States debt ceiling is a limit placed on the amount of money that the federal government can borrow. This is done by placing a cap on the amount of national debt that can be issued by the US...
View ArticleOn Consumerism, Corporatism, Time Preference, and Modernity
Consumerism Capitalism is often blamed for consumerism. It is almost a certainty that whenever leftists run out of other arguments, they will make an argument related to consumerism. Consumerism is...
View ArticleBook Review: The Euro
The Euro is a book about the shortcomings of the eurozone currency project by American economist Joseph Stiglitz. The book makes a case against many of the policies pursued by European leaders thus far...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Current Year: 2017 In Review
Though the specific demarcation of the passage from one year into another is a rather arbitrary social construct, it does provide a useful annual period for self-examination and remembrance. Now that...
View ArticleOn Leftist Academics, Respectable Opinion, and Civil War
In recent times, there is a burgeoning industry in popular books on academic subjects aimed at the layperson or the educated person who is not an expert in the field discussed in a certain book. Most...
View ArticleBook Review: Reactionary Liberty
Reactionary Liberty is a book about libertarian philosophy by Robert Taylor that approaches this and related subjects from a reactionary perspective. The book is divided into fifteen chapters, with a...
View ArticleAgreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Cryptocurrency Bans
Since shortly after its invention, cryptocurrency has had the attention of central bankers and government regulators all over the world. Without the slightest hint of self-reflection, they have...
View ArticleOn Libertarianism and Statecraft: Introduction
Libertarianism and Neoreaction The political theory of neoreaction is largely built on the concepts of formalism and neocameralism, and is concerned with competent statecraft. Libertarians often have...
View ArticleOn Linguistic Warfare
Whereas the most basic purpose of language is to facilitate communication between people, its development is necessarily a social affair. That being said, the role of individuals in this process cannot...
View ArticleOn Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part I: Political Strategy
<<<Introduction Part II>>> Author’s note: The main themes of this series will be further expounded...
View ArticleEliminate Government Shutdowns
Several months ago, I argued that the United States debt ceiling is a counterproductive and anti-formalist measure that should be eliminated, albeit for what establishment thinkers might call the wrong...
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