Wilton Alston's Columns
Do You Really Want Freedom, Or Are You Just Kidding Yourself?
"The people who take actions such as those police officers or that vice principal, on behalf of the State, very likely learned those lessons at home or at school, as children themselves. Each time one teaches those closest to him from this playbook, he deepens the chasm between freedom and the routine acceptance of the State’s naked authority. He also lengthens the time it will take to fill that chasm." Column by Wilt Alston.
What's So Hard to Understand About the Right to Bear Arms?
"The portion of the U.S. Constitution referred to as The Bill of Rights is an exposition, not a bestowal. Whatever 'well-organized militia' meant to someone in 1776 or to anyone this week is irrelevant since the clause is explaining what exists already, not what the document provides to a lucky citizen." Column by Wilt Alston.
I Don't Mind If You Keep Voting, But Do You Mind If I Keep Laughing While You Do?
MUST READ "I don’t care who the candidate is. I don’t care what issues to which he seems to gravitate. I don’t care about his record, his leadership qualities, the apparent first-lady-ness of his wife (or her husband), his insider-ness or his outsider-ness, his race, his height, his weight, how well he speaks, how wonderfully he photographs, the nation of his birth, how likely it might be that he’s fun to drink with, or his appreciation for unique uses for a fine cigar." Column by Wilt Alston. (Editor's pick)
Will We See the Return of Ted Westhusing?
"Kill all you want, we'll send more." Column by Wilt Alston.
Shooting the Messenger and Diverting Attention Never Get Old
"It appears now that the back-splash of partisan politics and the strange bedfellows it brings will have to be scraped off the fenders of radical libertarianism. Well, pass the spatula and let’s get to it." Column by Wilt Alston.
The NFL Network: You're Kidding, Right?
Column by Wilt Alston. I'll pay for cable TV when I can pay only for the channels I want to see. - Ed.
Are You a Pre-Con or a Pre-Lib, and Does It Really Matter?
"Let us each just take the steps we each think are best. Let each of us, as individual freedom allows, pursue that which we desire as if we “knew” it was the next best action anyone could take. Let us not attack each other to feed our egos." Column by Wilt Alston.
A Stato-Libertarian Analysis of Immigration
Recommended "Thus the argument for immigration controls calls libertarian theory itself into question! On this one issue, libertarianism does not work. On this one issue, apparently, a libertarian (laissez faire) immigration policy is ultimately bad for liberty!" Column by Wilt Alston and Stefan Molyneux.
Does the History of Racism Preclude Ancapistan?
"...the law of comparative advantage virtually assures that no society, even one conceived by supposed philosophical elites, will long last unpolluted by some type of diversity." Column by Wilt Alston.
Legitimizing Voting: A Modest Proposal
"During this phase, every program a candidate institutes is paid for directly by the people who voted for him. Talk about a change in focus! As opposed to everyone trying to figure out how to fleece everyone else, the voter would only be able to spend his own money." Column by Wilt Alston.
"It strikes me that that 'not responding to derogatory words' is exactly the opposite of launching a campaign against them. One can't logically have both at the same time nor accomplish both via the same methodology." Column by Wilton Alston.
"When it comes to getting involved in the lives of others, I’m sure we’d all love to believe the state would take a good, long look and employ the most logical means. As expected, nothing could be farther from the truth." Column by Wilton Alston.
Does Anybody Really Know Where the Money Comes From?
"I don’t know when it became true that you really don’t 'own' your real property, but whenever it happened, we effectively became indentured servants to the State, except that we can’t ever pay enough to be free." Column by Wilton Alston.
"At the risk of being crass, what the hell does it say about a country when our current leader openly admits to 'hearing voices' and no person vying for that job can get it if he doesn’t hear them too? They used to lock people up for that kind of stuff, no?" Column by Wilt Alston.
MUST READ "Immigrants weren’t in charge when we lost our freedoms. White guys were. Millions of 'illegal immigrants' threaten you somehow? Compared to your neighbor who votes Democrat or Republican and demands his Social Security? Puh-lease!" Column by Stefan Molyneux and (new Root Striker) Wilton Alston.