Force Doctrine — The Theory — “might makes reality ≠ might makes right”; the NAP-libertarians’ “the alternative is monstrous” is the wrong kind of grounding (constitutive/argumentation-ethics is the right shape); force-as-action vs coercion; structure selects who holds the force
Can Liberalism Be Used to Destroy Itself? — If the democratic process allows constitutional amendments, what stops Christian nationalists from legally dismantling liberal values?
Government Formation and Structure — Government is an inevitable product of division of labor — not a social contract, not Hobbes’s fear, but economic specialization applied to the coordination problem.
The Scope Confusion Thesis — Most political and legal disagreements are not about values — they’re about which enforcement mechanism is appropriate for a given norm.
The Represented Unit — federalism as a capture-resistance mechanism (capture is an ROI decision; distributed power isn’t worth buying); its two purposes = proximity (sorting) + surface area; may vs. must delegation
Corruption — The Floor Under the Mud-Sling — a non-indexical definition (diversion of entrusted power from constitutive purpose); the legal×corrupt four-quadrant grid; adversarial ≠ corrupt; whose-trust resolves the spy/NGO case
Administrative Agencies and the Power to Execute — unitary-executive reading; the four grounded cases (Humphrey’s/Seila/Loper Bright/Slaughter) + the Fed carve-out; gap-filling IS lawmaking, so the real question is who holds the discretion and can they be fired; the nondelegation-vs-executive-gap-filling fork
LiquidZulu — hub; ledger of where his ancap legal theory meets the vault’s
LiquidZulu — Responding to the Critics — scarcity→conflict→NAP without self-ownership; Hoppe on Rand’s base; private defense vs the jurisdiction problem
LiquidZulu Course 5 — Children — guardianship as homesteaded right; Hersum’s harm-is-active-only; evictionism; AI self-ownership and link-over-title
LiquidZulu Course 6 — Defensive Force — dialogical estoppel, same-form proportionality, mens rea vs actus reus, defense as exclusion, the human-body sword and shield
LiquidZulu Course 7 — Law as a Subset of Ethics — against the “virtuous crime”; the lifeboat; Rothbard read as narrowing law, not splitting the ought; Graf’s value-free praxeology answered
TIK on Anarcho-Capitalism — first capture of TIKhistory in his own voice; the choice-distance gradient and the market-for-a-state objection
TIK — Public vs Private — the video LZ attacks by name; the package-deal charge tested from inside it
The Public/Private Boundary — the line is drawn by exclusion, not ownership; TIK and LZ as the two failed criteria