<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:12:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@ashortageofsand/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Casting the First Stone: Christians and Victimless Crime]]></title><description><![CDATA[Any who dare to question the legitimacy of the state must be ready to endure ridicule. Libertarian Christians, however, face what amounts to excommunication as well. Of course, to suggest anti-statist]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/libertarian/@ashortageofsand/casting-the-first-stone-christians-and-victimless-crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/libertarian/@ashortageofsand/casting-the-first-stone-christians-and-victimless-crime</guid><category><![CDATA[libertarian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:34:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public education is insane!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was homeschooled my whole life. Among other things, this meant I’d never had a grade before I came to college. Naturally, now that I’m a freshman and I’m getting grades, I’ve been studying with my new]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/education/@ashortageofsand/public-education-is-insane</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/education/@ashortageofsand/public-education-is-insane</guid><category><![CDATA[education]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 02:31:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolkien the Anarchist]]></title><description><![CDATA[The only things more beautiful than stateless societies are the works of Professor J. R. R. Tolkien. It is no surprise then, that Tolkien himself was a proponent of anarchy. From a letter written to his]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/anarchism/@ashortageofsand/tolkien-the-anarchist</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/anarchism/@ashortageofsand/tolkien-the-anarchist</guid><category><![CDATA[anarchism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 23:58:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYg3FAt8sBRtoC2aEaTYESkfSPGnDzk7WBUFv986KZeV3DSHQVUc3eySnBiTkDjZ2sX5k8NCaWA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Citing Sources Is Cool and How You Should Do It]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie: I hate citing my sources. It's not that I want to "steal the glory" or anything. Plagiarism is the last thing on my mind. It's just that it's so dang time-consuming to copy]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@ashortageofsand/why-citing-sources-is-cool-and-how-you-should-do-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@ashortageofsand/why-citing-sources-is-cool-and-how-you-should-do-it</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:11:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moral Failure of the Minimum Wage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few victims of hardship earn as much sympathy as the “worker.” The great leftist Karl Marx devoted much of his Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital to an analysis of the struggles of the gentle laborer,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@ashortageofsand/the-moral-failure-of-the-minimum-wage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@ashortageofsand/the-moral-failure-of-the-minimum-wage</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:00:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Good Intentions Have Destroyed Economic Justice]]></title><description><![CDATA[The famed observer of democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, writes that, though democratic nations love freedom, “for equality they have an ardent, insatiable, eternal, invincible passion; they want equality]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/economics/@ashortageofsand/how-good-intentions-have-destroyed-economic-justice</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/economics/@ashortageofsand/how-good-intentions-have-destroyed-economic-justice</guid><category><![CDATA[economics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:48:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Government]]></title><description><![CDATA[“In the beginning, the universe was created,” explains author Douglas Adams. He goes on to point out: “This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” Adams wrote]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@ashortageofsand/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@ashortageofsand/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-government</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:38:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Freedom Matters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a purpose. It is irrelevant to our current discussion whether that purpose is something transcendent or objective, or whether it is subjective and relative to the individual. We have purpose]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@ashortageofsand/why-freedom-matters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@ashortageofsand/why-freedom-matters</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ashortageofsand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:31:18 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>