Against Intellectual Property

This will raise the ire of some libertarians, but I can see no merit in arguments that a copy of the product of one's mental effort is "property." Suppose I make a clay pot. Assuming that the clay was mine, and the tools were mine or were legitimately in my hands, and I had no…

Education: A Book List

A friend asked for my book list about education. What follows is a rough guide to why I believe as I do about education. My position:  government should have zero involvement in education, for a variety of reasons. People should be completely free to make their own choices, which would include "home schooling," "unschooling," and…

E. G. West: Education and the State

Many contend that, without government intervention, mass education would be impossible. Researcher E. G. West makes the case that mass education thrived in England and in North America before the advent of government intervention. http://store.mises.org/Education-and-the-State-P10423.aspx