Freedom on the Front Range: A Year of Selected Articles from The Front Range Voluntaryist (2017-2018)
Over the course of one year, a collection of great articles came into existence under the banner of The Front Range Voluntaryist, a monthly digital publication that ran from 2017-2018, edited by Mike Morris. Many writers contributed to this collection of great articles, some long, some short, but all revolving around the topics Austrian economics, libertarian/anarchist philosophy, anarchist strategy, history, counter-arguments to the State and myriad other pertinent topics. Full disclosure, I appear in this collection, but it was not something that I ever thought that I would have done.
I recently took a break from social media and drinking and it has been great for my sanity, productivity and I have reclaimed precious lost time and rekindled, pun intended, my desire to read more often. That being said, I did miss the interactions with some of the wonderful people that I have connected with over the years. For all the bad things that come from Twitter, it has done great things for me. Firstly, through a connection that I made on Twitter, I wound up writing a monthly article the Front Range Voluntaryist. Somewhere along the way in 2017, I made a one off tweet about someone claiming that the closing of a local dog park was on the order of an authoritarian move by a certain governmental jurisdiction. I thought that a couple folks might laugh at it momentarily and then keep scrolling. What I got was a response of, “do you want to write something about that for my publication?” I sat there staring at the response and thinking to myself, how-what-why-who-how would I do that? Somewhat cautiously, I said, yes, sure, I could totally do that. It took me several weeks to compose that first article for a grand total of, wait for it, five hundred words. It was extraordinarily quaint at the time, but that simple article sent me on my way to writing an article almost every month.
I write all this to say thank you to Mike Morris for nudging me into writing and then encouraging me throughout the year to keep contributing to the Front Range Voluntaryist. Additionally, I would be remiss not to mention that the true genesis of the article was based on a real-life conversation with an anonymous friend (he goes by La Flama Blanca, or some other nonsense). We’ve been known to have countless conversations on all sorts of topics at a handful of random local dive bars. I also am writing this to say that it’s good to nudge people from time to time, to encourage them to push their boundaries a bit, to put them out of their comfort zone. Sometimes that is all it takes. May you continue to take chances and push yourself in the new year.
Here is the link to find the book on Amazon.
