Sheldon Richman’s outstanding “Capitalism Versus the Free Market” lecture can be viewed online courtesy of the Future of Freedom Foundation.

The talk very effectively explains crucial economic and political history and theory. It will positively contribute to any viewer’s understanding and advocacy of liberty.

My weekly commentary for Center For a Stateless Society examines working within the state versus working around the state. It is a response to recent articles by Bret Stephens and Naomi Klein concerning Milton Friedman and that which he embodies.

Check it out at Center For a Stateless Society.

My latest commentary is up at Center For a Stateless Society. It describes a program to train inner-city youths to work at suburban Walmarts as one manifestation of state and corporate power intersecting to dominate life, and it takes a look at some ways to counter the authoritarians.

The archive for this week’s Thinking Liberty is now available for download. Jim Lesczynski, libertarian activist, entrepreneur, and author, joined us for the evening. Topics included zoning laws, regulatory barriers to forming new businesses, libertarian activism, and libertarian fiction.

I just posted my February Center For a Stateless Society feature: Holding Onto Ideology As We Move Past Dogma. The teaser I originally wrote for the c4ss.org homepage link was: “Darian Worden tries to avoid sounding pretentious as he tells anarchists how to think.” But it seemed like placing this bit of self-referencing humor there would be confusing, so I changed the summary to my favorite sentence in the essay: “If your only plastic soldier is the Bazooka Guy, then your army is going to suck.”

I had originally written in my notes for the article that Rand Paul only got so much support because he “originated in the nutsack of the messiah” but that’s sexist, superfluous, and cruder than the situation called for.

My latest commentary is up at Center For a Stateless Society. It’s a point-by-point discussion of a protest invitation. Check it out: Marching Orders.

A number of excellent commentaries have come out of C4SS lately. And if you want to see more of them, why not throw a few bucks into our fundraiser? Just go to c4ss.org and click the ChipIn button on the right of the page.

My latest commentary can be viewed at Center For a Stateless Society.

When people focus too much on icons of the past – like a famous Tea Party – the lessons that history contains become obscured. People who believe they are against government power can be led into supporting more power if they don’t look for alternatives to rulers…(read more)

My latest commentary is up at Center For a Stateless Society.

After centuries of pretending they were better than everyone else, the royal families of Europe became so intermarried that their family tree could be described as a gnarled bush. The varied expressions of social, economic, and political authority share a similarly incestuous relationship with each other….

My latest Center For a Stateless Society commentary, Waging War On the Environment, can now be viewed at the C4SS website.

It took a lot of procrastination and some late-night scribbling to do this one, but it was worth it.

Center For a Stateless Society is definitely in need of graphics: at the very least, a logo and banner ads.

I was trying to think of appropriate designs today. I thought of images that emphasized the cooperative aspects of anarchism.

Early ideas involved a picture of Earth. A handshake or circle-A could be superimposed on it.

A lot of C4SS works talk about decentralized production technology and free resilient communities. Solar panels or windmills probably wouldn’t do it. I considered a lathe, that wouldn’t work well in a logo. A simpler tool, the adjustable wrench, seemed like a good one. It is adaptable to many scenarios and can be used for building or taking things apart. Then I remembered that Crimethinc already did that, which is probably why I thought of it.

So then I actually looked up “tools” in Google Image search (seriously!) and found this:

What about a similar four-block image with one letter of “C4SS” superimposed over each square? With or without tools in each square?

Then I took a look at other think tank logos. It doesn’t look like it would be too difficult to best some of these.

So I went ahead and messed around in Photoshop.

Black for Anarchy, Sea Green as a pleasant libertarian color (the color of the Levellers)

They look good, but this logo looks like it belongs on a chemical tank, not a political study.

So I channeled the market for a new color:

I feel the same about this color scheme.

Try dropping adjectives and going gold and black?

Total chemical warning label.

Blue seems to be a think-tanky color. How about throwing blue in there?

I could deal with these.

But what about a banner?

Too dark.

This would look good cleaned up and with a picture of breaking chains added in the upper left region. I don’t feel like doing that right now.

I do like the color scheme of c4ss.org so it might be a good idea to design for that.