The Wolf DeVoon Archive

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT
From smith2004:
"In the end, all group behavior is about eating, while all individual behavior is about sex." -- L. Neil Smith

# Ali Hassan Massoud - The Wolf DeVoon Archive - Chemical Ali Massoud has collected a bunch of Wolf DeVoon's writings in one convenient site. [clairefiles]

Wolf DeVoon is an interesting man even by anarcho-libertarian standards. He is equal parts scholar and activist. Wolf is also a free man in both theory and in practice, which is very rare.

He has at different times graduated college, attended law school, produced articles, books, and films, been personally ostracized by Ayn Rand and received critical praise for his insightful work and writing in the field of natural law and moral philosophy. He is also very funny, sarcastic, and a pleasure to read. Unlike many scholars of the anarcho-libertarian movement, he has eschewed a safe and easy sinecure at a webzine, think-tank, or a position on a university faculty.

Instead Wolf has written, experienced, succeeded and failed at trying to move the concept and practice of individual liberty from the treatises and novels and into the actual world. For all his efforts, I am personally very grateful. Most of Wolf's writing has been on the web, and so given the Internets' s ephemeral nature, has been scattered about. My goal here is to round it all up in one place on the web so it will be available to scholars, activists, and the intellectually curious. It is not all-inclusive so if you know of an article, forum or blog posts by or about Wolf, or anything else of note, please send it to me and I will include it here if possible.

# Anthony Gregory at LewRockwell.com - People Die in War - in large numbers. And many people use this piece's title as some kind of justification of the mass slaughter. Sure, if a soldier volunteers to go to war and gets killed there, he's only receiving his just desserts, but the blood of even one innocent child invalidates the entire thing. "Collateral damage" is code for "brutal murder". [lew]

# David Codrea - What Do You Mean, Gun Control Applies to US? - commentary on Jim Duffy's letter to the editor of the North Country Times (San Diego County, CA) complaining that the local fair will no longer allow off-duty cops to attend armed, hence they've decided to stay away. This should let Mr. Duffy know, first-hand, how all we non-cops feel. But I doubt he'll figure it out. He likely firmly believes that some animals are more equal than others. [codrea]

# Barry Kauler - Puppy Linux - an amazingly fast and full-featured Linux distribution that takes up only 60 megs of CD, hard drive, or USB drive and runs completely from 128 megs of RAM. If you run it from a writeable CD, it can save updates to successive sessions on the CD. Worked well for me in a Virtual PC VM, once I used the Network Wizard to probe my DHCP server. [clairefiles]

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