Glen Allport's Columns
"Given the size of the problem, alienating your natural allies seems counter-productive. You seem genuine in your desire for a better world, and I ask you to consider that “Unbelievers” may in fact be decent human beings who are no more likely to support evil or tyranny than are members of your own church." Column by Glen Allport.
"These six do one thing more: they introduce perceptions of reality so different from the norm as to astonish, delight, shock, and sometimes horrify. Every one of these books demolishes entrenched assumptions. The world may never look the same after you’ve read them." Column by Glen Allport.
Government Is Not Compassion, Part 2
"Every argument in favor of government--any kind of coercive government--is utterly demolished by government's frequent mass murders and other crimes throughout history, which continue in the present day. Lesser reasons for turning from coercive government are powerful also; for example, whatever government does, it does badly, wastefully, and expensively. Coercive government is a centralized, top-down, authoritarian approach, fundamentally at odds with the decentralized, chaotic, bottom-up emergent system of human society. Still, the utilitarian argument pales to insignificance next to the stunning, irrefutable, jaw-dropping fact of repeated, epic mass murder. Nobody would support a system that even occasionally did that. Would they?" A sweeping, devastating, thoroughly researched and documented column by Glen Allport.
Government Is Not Compassion, Part 1
"The difference between not having a government to inflict power and having one, is literally the difference between Adolph Hitler as a nearly-insane, anti-Semitic housepainter, and Adolph Hitler as a nearly-insane, anti-Semitic German Chancellor. It's the difference between Charles Manson as the murderer of a handful, and Pol Pot as the murderer of perhaps two million." An outstanding column by new Root Striker Glen Allport.