The Zeroth Position

By Matthew “Nullus Maximus” Reece and guest contributors where noted

(in chronological order beginning with most recent)

Eleven Observations on the Capitol Protest

The Not-So-Current Year: 2020 In Review

An Analysis of Cancel Culture

The Economic Fallacies of Black Friday: 2020 Edition

On Being Suspended From Twitter

Colonize Your Bookshelf, Part IV

Colonize Your Bookshelf, Part III

Colonize Your Bookshelf, Part II

Colonize Your Bookshelf, Part I

On David Friedman and Liberty Minecraft

On Libertarianism and Pandemics

Song Lyrics: Don’t Fear the Wenyi

 A Glossary of Social Justice Warrior Terminology, 3rd Edition

Afghanistan: The Road Not Taken

Thirteen Observations on Super Tuesday 2020

Book Review: Why Cities Lose

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Compulsory Voting

Against Compulsory Delusion

The Next Hero of the Soviet Union

Book Review: The Problem of Democracy

Book Review: Nemesis

Gun Control Horrorism

Book Review: The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates

The Ordnungszelle Option

A Libertarian Reactionary View of Tariffs, Part I

Corporate Censorship Is the Product of Power

Venezuela: To Solve a Tinderbox

Civil Rights Are Not the Answer to Corporate Censorship

Thoughts During the Burning of Notre Dame

Song Lyrics: If You Cannot Solve A Problem

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Universal Basic Income

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Tax the Rich

What’s In A Name?

Twelve Observations on the Covington Incident

Liberty Minecraft Quarterly: Winter 2019

Book Review: Cyber Smart

The Not-So-Current Year: 2018 In Review

Book Review: Anarcho-Monarchism

Song Lyrics: SEC Got Run Over By A Bitcoin

An Introduction to Immaterial Technology, Part I

The Economic Fallacies of Black Friday: 2018 Edition

On Private Imperialism and Colonialism

Song Lyrics: Election Song

A Holistic Approach to Ending Corporate Censorship

On Universalism, Genocide, and Libertarianism

Liberty Minecraft Quarterly: Autumn 2018

Ten Observations on the Brett Kavanaugh Smear Campaign

Henry Olson Misunderstands Libertarianism

The Case For Executing Pedophile Priests

Book Review: One Nation Under Gold

Song Lyrics: Bitcoiner Blues

Eleven Observations on the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings

An Overview Of Autistic Conservatism

The State Is Negan, Part III

The Rise and Fall of the Sturmabteilung

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Impeach Donald Trump

The Myth of Tremendous Government: A Reply to Mark Christensen

Book Review: The New Wealth of Nations

The Producerist Theory of Society and Civilization

The Case Against Corporations

Against the Magna Carta

How Much Force is Best for Civilization?

Womp For Victory

Introducing Agnostic History

Dealing With Doxxing

How Leftism Killed the Boy Scouts

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Minimum Wage

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part XII: Greed

Capital Punishment as Ritual Magick for Social Order

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part XI: Immaterial Externalities

Song Lyrics: Mr. Politician Man

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part X: Time Preference

On American Intervention in Syria

On Degeneracy, Loss, and Civilization

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part IX: Trust

An Overview of Second-Order Logical Problems

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part VIII: Authority and Elite

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part VII: Libertarian Philosophy and Social Contract

The Color Theory of Conflict, Part I: Order of Battle

A Glossary of Social Justice Warrior Terminology, 2nd Edition

How To Manufacture A Sociopolitical Movement

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part VI: Authority and Liberty

Ten Observations on Right-Wing Activist Bans in the UK

Book Review: Homo Deus

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part V: Aristocracy, Republicanism, and State

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part IV: Libertarian Governance

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Anti-Discrimination Laws

Eliminate Government Shutdowns

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part III: Governance, State, and Defense

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part II: Property and Liability

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Conscription

On Libertarianism and Statecraft, Part I: Political Strategy

On Linguistic Warfare

On Libertarianism and Statecraft: Introduction

Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Cryptocurrency Bans

Book Review: Reactionary Liberty

On Leftist Academics, Respectable Opinion, and Civil War

Bill Wirtz’s Helicopter Skydive

Nepal Has Fallen

The Not-So-Current Year: 2017 In Review

On Individualism and Nationalism

The Problems With Santa Claus

Eight Politically Incorrect Benefits of Cryptocurrency

On Traditionalism, Degeneracy, and Compassion

Book Review: The Euro

Praise The Grinch Bots

The Case for Autostatism

How To Argue Against Modern Anti-Capitalism

The Economic Fallacies of Black Friday: 2017 Edition

Should Libertarians Support Ethnic Nationalism?

Building Liberty in Minecraft

Book Review: Libertarian Reaction

On Consumerism, Corporatism, Time Preference, and Modernity

Eliminate The Debt Ceiling

Book Review: The Art Of Invisibility

The Case For Judicial Corporal Punishment

Guns Are The Only Bulwark Against Tyranny

On Citizenship And Casual Totalitarianism

Twelve Observations On The Catalonia Independence Vote

Lecture: Libertarianism and Reaction

Privatizing State Security

The Ethical Notions Of Personhood And Savagery

Why Price Gouging Is Good

On Immigration and Outlawry

Book Review: Calculating The Cosmos

How To Rein In Censorious Technology Giants

Thirteen Observations on Events in Charlottesville

On The Relationship Between Libertarianism and Fascism

Book Review: Open To Debate

The Definition and Role of Degeneracy

A Critique of Libertarian Strategy

The Curious Case of Net Neutrality

A Consideration Of Helicopter Rides

Book Review: Closing The Courthouse Door

Blame Democracy For Heated Political Rhetoric

A Squandered Opportunity Against Judicial Activism

A Case Against the Eleventh Amendment

Nine Observations On The Congressional Baseball Shooting

The Immediate Danger Standard Is Statist Nonsense

Book Review: The Science Of Selling

The Benefits of a Trump-Russia Conspiracy

A Perversion Of Service

Fashion As A Harbinger Of Revolution

Authority, Anarchy, and Libertarian Social Order

Strategy Against Antifa: 2nd Edition

On the Imbalance of Political Terror

Book Review: Islamic Exceptionalism

Ethical Theories at the Murrah Building

On the Supply Objection to the Gold Standard

Book Review: Level Up Your Life

Fourteen Observations on Events in Syria

A Case Against the Second Amendment

Song Lyrics: Stickman

Nine Observations on the Westminster Attack

On Libertarianism and Conquest

Book Review: Against Empathy

The State Is Negan, Part II

On Sharp Argumentation

Fake Libertarianism Revisited

Book Review: Come And Take It

Book Review: In Our Own Image

Tucker, Spencer, Libertarianism, and Fascism

Felling The Oak Of Statism

The State Is Negan, Part I

A Comprehensive Strategy Against Antifa

The Political Autism of Anti-Protectionism

How The Left Can Still Win The 2016 Election

Book Review: The Invention of Russia

25 More Statist Propaganda Phrases

In Defense of Russian Hacking

The Not-So-Current Year: 2016 In Review

Book Review: Our Sister Republics

Leave Otto Warmbier In North Korea

Ten Observations on the Fall of Aleppo

Book Review: The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing

Neoreactionaries Are Off Their Heads About Trump

The Economic Fallacies of Black Friday: 2016 Edition

A Campaign Against the Commission on Presidential Debates

On My Lack Of Satire

Thirteen Observations on the 2016 Election

Against Vote Swapping: A Rebuttal to Penn Jillette

Democracy, Violence, and Libertarian Social Order

Are Libertarians A Joke? A Rebuttal to Milo Yiannopoulos

Book Review: The West Point History of the Civil War

On Market Failure

The Strategic Libertarian Case For Supporting Hillary Clinton

Defending the Hoppriori Argument

Why JASTA Is Good

Seven Observations on the Charlotte Protests

On the Use of Force Against the Commission on Presidential Debates

This Is (Probably) Not The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime

The Economic Illiteracy of Liberty Mutual, Part II

How to Peacefully Protest the Commission on Presidential Debates

On Libertarianism and the Alt-Right

Disasters and the Pax Romana Problem

Seven observations on the Rio Olympics

Black Lives Matter Versus Libertarian Revolution

The Ethics Of Political Assassinations

A Libertarian Social Order In The Garden

The Case For Bringing Religion Into Politics

Make America Miss Again: The 2016 Republican National Convention

Cleveland 2016: A Victory For Open Carry

An Overview Of Autistic Libertarianism

What Recent Killings Of Police Are Not

Government Will Not Hold Government Accountable

The Vice Presidency Is Assassination Insurance

The Libertarian Case For Private Nuclear Weapons

Seven observations on Brexit

Supreme Court upholds racism, rejects meritocracy

Eleven observations on the Orlando shooting

Fifteen Life Lessons from Lifting

Requiem for a Dumpster Fire: The 2016 Libertarian National Convention

On My (Lack of) Use of Profanity

Why We Need More Political Violence

On Libertarianism and Punishment

The Glorious Delegitimizing of the American Presidency

Libertarianism and Reaction: Pieces of a Whole

Cut Puerto Rico Loose

On Air Ownership and Pollution

Defending the Reecean Proviso

The Case For Damages For Abortion

A Glossary of Social Justice Warrior Terminology

Ten Observations On The Brussels Attacks

Ten Simple Rules For Debating

Unrepentant Aggressors Must Die For Liberty

Of History and Possibilities

A Case Against The First Amendment

Resolve To Understand The Struggle

Errors in the Face of Revolt

Liberty Requires Revolution

The not-so-scary implications of arguments against open borders

Charlotte City Council Takes A Stand Against Liberty

Why I have parted ways with Examiner

The Decline Of Twitter (And What To Do About It)

Would Ron Paul Have Defeated Barack Obama? An Educated Guess

The Homs Case For Anarchy

Rethinking ‘No Victim = No Crime’

Seven observations on the end of the Rand Paul 2016 campaign

The Libertarian Case Against Trump

On the Zeroth Position

When Gun Deaths Are Good

Nine observations on the Oregon standoff

A case against the Nineteenth Amendment

The Not-So-Current Year: 2015 In Review

‘Giving Back to the Community’ is Communist Propaganda

On libertarianism, reaction, and Trump

The Ethics of Using Force Against Planned Parenthood

The economic fallacies of Black Friday: 2015 Edition

The Pragmatic Libertarian Case Against Open Borders

Ten observations on the Paris attacks

Youliy Ninov’s Case Against Anarcho-Capitalism

Matt Zwolinski’s Case Against Libertarianism

Against Libertarian Hedonism

Eight observations on the death of Irwin Schiff

The Free Rider Benefit

Bring Back the Joust: A Modest Proposal

A Man Who Owns a River

Anatomy of a Cuckertarian

There Is No Such Thing As Security

Defending The Reservation Scalper

Vester Flanagan Was A Model Social Justice Warrior

The economic illiteracy of Liberty Mutual

Introducing the Ohio Strategy

America is both fascist and communist? An explanation

The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Nuclear Iran

A stateless solution to the problem of water pollution

A Measure Of Communism In America

Eight observations on the Memphis police shooting

A Measure Of Fascism In America

The Most Likely Reason For Disarming Social Security Beneficiaries

Planned Parenthood and Ukraine: There Is No Such Thing As Non-Lethal Aid

Why Fixing Greece Requires Anarchy

An explanation of Litecoin’s price spike

Why libertarians should oppose Obergefell v. Hodges

Seven observations on the Charleston church shooting

Supreme Court gives raisin farmers fake freedom

Rape accusation culture strikes at Amherst College

Eight observations on the subpoena of Reason Magazine

The Laura Kipnis case and the battle against thought police

A case against the Eighth Amendment

Eight observations on the sentencing of Ross Ulbricht

Austin Petersen’s Case Against Libertarianism

Why Charles Murray’s Strategy Is Bad, But Should Be Tried Anyway

Police And Criminals: When To Pull For No One

How To Stop Government Bitcoin Sales

Ten observations on the Baltimore riots

The Libertarian Case Against Rand Paul

Why The DEA Prostitution Scandal Should Not Be A Surprise

How Rolling Stone Is Advancing Rape Accusation Culture

Rand Paul’s CPAC 2013 speech: a philosophical libertarian response

Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Social Security And Public Goods

Why Good (Government) Police Cannot Exist

The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for Nuclear Proliferation

Involution, Then Revolution

A libertarian case against mandatory voting

The 100 and a libertarian perspective on innocent shields

25 statist propaganda phrases and how to rebut them

Five observations on the Department of Homeland Security funding debacle

An open letter against an open letter to Ron Paul

Libertarians Must Be Spellwarriors

On American Sniper And Human Farming

Six observations on the conviction of Ross Ulbricht

Introducing Reece’s Razor

But Who Will Build The Death Camps?

The fallacies of blaming Walmart for obesity

How The USDA Ruined Burns Supper

A case for self-defense against Child Protective Services

The Dark Side Of Decentralization

Police Assassinations Versus The Non-Aggression Principle

Four uncomfortable truths about government militaries

The economic fallacies of Black Friday: 2014 Edition

Seven observations about events in Ferguson

Seven virtuous ideas that require anarchy

How would X work without the state?

How an anarcho-capitalist society could save us from parades

A response to arguments against the CIA torture report

NYPD officer gets away with murder of Eric Garner

Twelve arguments for voting and how to refute them

A Taste Of Armageddon For The Voting Booth

Why Economic Patriotism Is Nonsense

Why Robert Pittenger is essentially correct about discrimination

Eight Negatives Of Economic Sanctions

Book Review: Freedom!

Real libertarians say: immigration is a government program

The five Ws of fake libertarianism

Free Markets Require No Regulation

Six observations on the secession of Crimea

Book Review: Selected Salvos from the Loose Cannon Libertarian

Arguments for stimulus and how to counter them

Coal Ash Pollution And A Free Market Solution

On Peter Schiff, minimum wage, offensive terminology, and philosophy

Defending Panthers Ticket Scalpers

How The Salvation Army Commits The Broken Window Fallacy

The Federal Reserve Turns 100: A Timeline Of Economic Mismanagement

Book review: It’s a Jetsons World

Sriracha pollution and how a free society might handle it

The Truth About the History of U.S. Sovereign Default

We are not a country of anarchists: a philosophical rebuttal

Book review: Unlocking More Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion

Book review: Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion

The Real Reason Why We Pay Taxes

Book review: The Handbook of Human Ownership

Book review: The Law

Book review: Education Free and Compulsory

The Moral Crimes Of The IRS And Their Punishments

The Unfairness Of The Marketplace Fairness Act

Book review: We Who Dared to Say No to War

A president frequently forgotten on Presidents Day

Scientific thoughts about the New Year

The Hobbit and its significance for libertarians

The Moral Crimes Of Taxation And Their Punishments

The Santa Claus Lie And The Harm It Does To Children

Interview with Barbara Howe

Interview with Gov. Gary Johnson