ARTICLES BY WENDY McELROY

Individualist Anarchism

Historical

• Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, and Individualist Anarchism, Part One, Part Two
• In Search of the Promised Gulch
• Intellectual Property: Copyright and Patent   From the upcoming book The Debates of Liberty. [41K]  A working draft of this chapter formerly appeared on this site in two parts.
• In Praise of Working People  Freedom Daily, September 1998. [12K]
• The Schism Between Individualist and Communist Anarchism   Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1 [Fall 2000]. [62K]  Abbreviated version [26K]
• Is the Constitution Antiquated? Ideas on Liberty, November 1999. [10K]
• Rothbard as System-Builder: A Tribute  Appeared in abridged form in Liberty magazine. [33K]
• Constitutional Intentions  Appeared in Ideas on Liberty, June 2000 [21K].
• Strategies from the Past: Boycott, Part 1 and Part 2.  Appeared in Freedom Daily, September and October 2000. [10K,11K]
• The Free-Soil Movement.  Appeared in Freedom Daily. [21K]
• Wherein does Wrongness Lie?  Originally appeared in Total LIberty [10K].
• A Webb of Lies  Appeared in The Free Market, Volume 18, Number 2 (February 2000) [7K]
• Social Boycott  A strategy of the nineteenth-century individualist anarchists. [10K]
• Legal Child Abuse  From The Free Market, Volume 19, Number 1 (January 2001). [8K]
• McElroy on Liberty  An inverview by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, November 14, 2000. [11K]

Theory

• Individualist Anarchism v. Communist Anarchism and Libertarianism, Part One, Part Two
• The Non-Absurdity of Natural Law
• The Efficiency of Natural Rights
• Defining the State and Society
• Social Engineering and Human Ignorance
• Origins of Religious Tolerance
• We Believe  A "bagatorial" written for the grocery bags of the Cheaper! discount stores in California.[12K]
• Nock on Education
• Bathtubs, Mencken and War
• War is the Health of the State: Its Meaning  The Freeman, July 1999 [14K], appeared as "War's Other Casualty."
• Demystifying the State  Originally appeared in Neither Bullets Nor Ballots. [12K]
• Climbing Off The Bandwagon  Appeared in The Voluntaryist, February 1983. [8K]
• Neither Bullets Nor Ballots  Appeared in The Voluntaryist Vol. I, No. 1, October 1982. [8K]
• Libertarian Just War Theory  What would be the requirements of a libertarian just war? [15K]
• Institutionalizing Idealism How can institutions be designed so as to express and tend toward libertarian ideals? [15K]

Current Issues

• Sweatshops: Look for the INS Label  Ideas on Liberty, July 2000 [17K].
• Anarchism: Two Kinds  Originally appeared on www.mises.org, December 13, 1999. [8K]
• State Science, State Truth  Originally appeared on www.mises.org, January 6, 2000. [6K]
• New Whine, Old Battles  Individualists should rejoice!  From www.mises.org, October 22, 1999. [7K]
• Art and State: The Case for Separation  Originally posted on www.mises.org, September 28, 1999. [5K]
• Right Tactics, Wrong Cause  Appeared  on www.mises.org, April 28, 2000.  [15K]

Debates

• Why I Would Not Vote by McElroy
• Bradford's Critique of McElroy's Preceding Article
• The Damnation of Bill Bradford: Sam Konkin's Critique of Bradford's Critique
• A Reconsideration of Trial by Jury
• The American Revolution Revisited
• Contra Gradualism

Reviews

• A Necessary Distortion A review of Garry Wills' A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government.  Originally appeared on www.mises.org, January 11, 2000. [11K]
• Freedom Will Conquer Racism and Sexism  A review of the book by J. Edward Pawlick.  Originally appeared on www.mises.org. [11K]

Edited by Wendy McElroy

• "Memories of Benjamin Tucker"  by John William Lloyd, a contributor to Tucker's Liberty.  (Link to the Mises Institute web site.)    Also see Erinnerungen an Benjamin Tucker, a German translation by Christian Butterbach.
• The Life of Benjamin R. Tucker, Part 1 [22K]  Part 2 [19K]  Part 3 [90K]  Part 4 [48K]  Previously unpublished autobiography of Benjamin Tucker, transcribed from the Tucker Papers. In 4 parts.

Also see link to Comprehensive Index of Tucker's Liberty on Home Page
 

Individualist Feminism

Historical

• The Roots of 19th Century Individualist Feminism in America, Part One, Part Two
• The Contagious Disease Acts   Freedom Daily, March 2000 [13K].
• Bibliographic Essay
• The Civil Rights Act: Unintended Consequences Writ Large.   SpinTech, July 12, 1999 [12K].
• Sarah Elizabeth Holmes: The Study of A Silenced Woman.  An excerpt from Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century: Collected Writings and Biographical Profiles. [19K]
• Angela Fiducia Tilton Heywood: in the Shadow of a Man. An excerpt from Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century: Collected Writings and Biographical Profiles.

Theory

• Michel Foucault and Pornography Introduction to Individualist Feminism, Part One, Part Two
• Mises' Legacy to Feminism
• Individualism: A New View Of Feminism.  From a talk presented for the Institute for Humane Studies, at Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, on June 22, 2001. [21K]

Pornography

• A Feminist Overview of Pornography
• Banning Pornography Endangers Women
• Preface to XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
• From a Sexually Incorrect Feminist.  Penthouse magazine, July, 1995. [10K]

Other Issues

• Abortion
• What Does Affirmative Action Affirm?
• The New Mythology of Rape, Part One, Part Two
• Prostitutes, Feminists, and Economic Associates, Part One, Part Two
• Feminists Against Women: the New Reproductive Technologies, Part One, Part Two
• Does Rape Violate the Commerce Clause?  Ideas on Liberty, October 2000 [19K].
• An Overview of "Solutions" to Prostitution. [16K]
• Gender Madness on Columbia's Campus Ideas on Liberty, March 2001 [18K].
• Chi parla per le prostitute? (Who Speaks for the Prostitute?)  [Italian]  Excerpt from "Una difesa dei diritti delle prostitute" (Leonardo Facco, 2001)
• Sex and the State  Commentary on Lewinsky and Clinton.  Appeared in The Free Market, Volume 16, Number 6 (June 1998). [9K] A different version appeared on this web site under the title Sex and the State...of Affairs.
• A 'Family' Crisis at the United Nations The UN wants to dictate family policy and moral codes. [21K]
• Prostitution: Reconsidering Research  Appeared in Spintech magazine, November 12, 1999. [18K]
• Pornographie - aus feministischer Sicht (Pornography - from a feminist view).  From  the German on-line publication Eigentümlich frei. [40K]
• Understanding Sexual Harassment  appeared in Liberty magazine, December 2001, as "The Chilling Effect". [21K]
• Heterophobia: a review of Daphne Patai's book , Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism. [7K]
• Politicizing the Housewife  Originally appeared in Ideas on Liberty, November 2001. [20K]
• In Defense of Prostitutes  Appeared in Spintech magazine, August 12, 2000. [12K]

Miscellaneous

• Contracts, and Clinton, and Courts...Oh My!
• Preface to The Reasonable Woman
• Interview with Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views) about ifeminism and libertarianism.  May 2002. [14K]
   

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Other Topics

Freedom of Speech

• The Ugly Face of Political Correctness.  from Heterodoxy magazine. [19K]
• America's Re-education Camps.  from Heterodoxy magazine. [22K]

Privacy

Intellectual Survival

• The Rules of Intellectual Etiquette  From The Reasonable Woman. [8K]

Fiction

• Keep the Lid on Your Id.  Originally appeared in 1983 in Pulpsmith magazine. [12K]

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