On December 22nd there was a general strike of the socialist, liberal and catholic public sector unions against the Belgian government’s austerity measures and pension reforms. Belgian government employees, among the most well-paid government workers in the EU, would be required to work 2 years longer and would see their pensions cut. Since Belgium’s credit rating [...]

First, I’m a Christian. I believe that the state is nothing less than a false god, created by mere mortals desiring power for themselves. Throughout the existence of government, its leaders have made such wild claims as being gods, being God’s emissary on earth, or being divinely inspired. These can be simply refuted by the [...]

As anarchists of the peaceful kind, we prefer to spread our message of liberty without authority through the means education, Socratic questioning and lively debate. For us students – might I even say: young intellectuals? – this academic method of (inductive) reasoning and logical argumentation is just the sensible thing to do. We’re all bright, [...]

We’ve all the seen the images on TV of the North Korean population weeping hysterically over the death of their beloved leader Kim Yung Il. Most Westerners like to believe that these images are staged and the weeping people are either actors or common North Koreans forced by the government to show their grief. I [...]

A common misconception of anarchism – sometimes even by anarchists themselves – is to mistake anarchism for an ideology, if not a political ideal. I believe this to be false, and for the following reasons. First, the nature of anarchy is the “an-archè”, the absence of force. Whether the concept of the archè should be [...]

I’m sure you all feel the same way I do when seeing Obama 2012 or “? Republican 2012″ bumper stickers on cars.

I came up with an idea after the 2008 elections to inform people of their ignorance by putting little pamphlets under the windshields with a little bit of information.  I never got a [...]

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Pardon my abandonment of the S4SS project.  It turns out that life caught up to me when I least expected it to!  Alas, I am here, and alive after enjoying a week of break.

I have received much interest from students who wish to start S4SS groups on their campus.  The goal is [...]

I’ve always considered myself a unique individual. Ever since I was a child, I was eccentric, and much of that can be attributed to my attitude that I had to be different than everyone else. Looking back, I remember many times where I lied about liking a TV Show or a band when [...]

by Nick Ford

My return to blogging at S4SS isn’t going to as grand as I’ve made it at Discourses on Liberty but I still hope to eventually make it a grand start to something even grander than I’ve done. This post is more of a calling out to my fellow [...]