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How I Work
This is a little exercise my friends and colleagues at Praxis have been up to. Location: Some combination of West Palm Beach, FL, Pittsburgh, PA, and miscellaneous airport terminals Current gig:...
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How to Build Your Self-Esteem by Deschooling Yourself
Self-esteem is at the core of living a happy life. By “self-esteem” I don’t mean the stuff of cheesy motivational posters or overpriced workshops with goofball speakers. I don’t mean books written by...
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Deschooling Isn’t the Opposite of Structure — It’s the Height of It
I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain I was fortunate enough to speak at an event in San Francisco this summer about the necessity of deschooling yourself for leading a...
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The Conditions for Romantic Love
This is one of a series of posts on the issues of romantic love. Check out my first post here. The issue of romantic love is a loaded topic. In the English language, we use the word “love” to describe...
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What Are We Doing to Children With Schooling?
The following originally appeared at the Students For Liberty blog. I’ll be joining them at their Philadelphia, Ohio, and Florida Gulf Coast Regional Conferences this fall. Imagine an institution that...
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Recent and Upcoming Book Projects
I’m very excited to say that I’ve been contributing to and working on several book projects over the summer. The first is Freedom Without Permission: How to Live Free in a World That Isn’t, which...
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What’s the Difference Between a Small Business and a Startup?
It can seem like everything is a startup nowadays. Somehow both the app that shows smiley faces when you tap it that your neighbor built in his dorm room and Uber, a $54B company with thousands of...
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Five of My Beliefs You Probably Don’t Like
I hold a number of beliefs that I don’t think are particularly popular and I try to write about them here pretty often. I do this both so that I can get discussions going and see where I actually...
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How Schools Limit Our Lives With Permission
May I go to the bathroom? May I borrow a pencil? May I have next Monday off to go on a family vacation? These questions and ones like them are going to be asked countless times today and over the...
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Work Ethic as Necessary for Fulfillment
Work ethic is at the core of becoming a fulfilled person. If you’re somebody who pursues work as a way to fulfillment, failing to have good work ethic will make it impossible for you to truly become...
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Why Don’t Philosophers Grapple With Love?
While studying philosophy in college, I was given the opportunity to have a research project supported by the University. I had been working with a professor on moral psychology of guilt, contempt,...
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Why Philosophy Matters: Live With Integrity
In yesterday’s post, I defended the study of philosophy by non-philosophers for the value its analytic tools give us. Philosophy is the discipline and set of tools through which we live our lives in...
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Why Philosophy Matters: Let’s Think Clearly About Our Lives
It’s back-to-school time and millions of young Americans are off to participate in the ritual of taking required classes for four years and somehow becoming a more well-rounded person and a better...
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This Week’s Roundup
Here are a few links to articles I’ve published in the past week. Uberocracy: How the Sharing Economy Changes Politics Medium (original publication) Anything Peaceful (republished) Reason Magazine Hit...
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The University and Secondary Education, by John O. Nelson
This article first appeared in the December 1967 issue of The Freeman, printed by the Foundation for Economic Education. It can be found recently digitized here. It is noteworthy for its date of...
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There Never Was a Golden Age of Higher Ed
The popular notion that there was a golden age of higher education tends to argue that higher education once was a place where young people came to have their minds opened by erudite academics, gain...
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What makes a professional philosopher?
After I shared my recent feature with Steve Patterson (below), an outcry from several followers and friends on social media declaring that one cannot professionally philosophize outside of academia led...
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This Philosopher Says You Don’t Need a PhD to Be a Philosopher
Steve Patterson is a freelance philosopher…who doesn’t have a PhD (or even an undergraduate degree in philosophy). Spending his time primarily on issues of philosophy of mind and epistemology, Steve...
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How to Drop Out of College and Drop Into Something Better
College may be an opportunity for lots of people, but you are young, ambitious, looking to take control of your own life. College feels like an extension of high school and, with it, an extension of...
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Hunter S. Thompson on Reaching a Goal and Enjoying Life
[A] man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by...
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